To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROCultivation of the mind is as necessary as food to the body.
More Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes
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In all matters, before beginning, a diligent preparation should be made.
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The face is a picture of the mind with the eyes as its interpreter.
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Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.
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Dogs wait for us faithfully.
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He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.
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Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.
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But I must at the very beginning lay down this principle—friendship can only exist between good men.
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It is our own evil thoughts which madden us.
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Knowledge which is divorced from justice may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
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A mental stain can neither be blotted out by the passage of time nor washed away by any waters.
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Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
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Freedom will bite back more fiercely when suspended than when she remains undisturbed.
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It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
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I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.
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The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.
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