To be rather than to seem.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROThe fruit of too much liberty is slavery.
More Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes
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What is dishonorably got, is dishonorably squandered.
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Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.
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We must not only obtain Wisdom: we must enjoy her.
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To be content with what we possess is the greatest and most secure of riches.
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Politicians are not born; they are excreted.
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The face is a picture of the mind with the eyes as its interpreter.
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For the whole life of a philosopher is, as the same philosopher says, a meditation on death.
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The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.
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Life is nothing without friendship.
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It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.
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He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.
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What an ugly beast is the ape, and how like us.
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A room without books is like a body without a soul.
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When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.
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Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
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