Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
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More Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes
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We are bound by the law, so that we may be free.
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I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know.
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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
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Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.
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Wisdom is the only thing which can banish sorrow from the breast .
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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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Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
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The fruit of too much liberty is slavery.
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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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In times of war, the law falls silent.
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Old age: the crown of life, our play’s last act.
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To teach is a necessity, to please is a sweetness, to persuade is a victory.
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What is sweeter than lettered ease?
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Endless money forms the sinews of war.
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Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body.
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The life of the dead is placed on the memories of the living. The love you gave in life keeps people alive beyond their time. Anyone who was given love will always live on in another’s heart.
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Nature herself has imprinted on the minds of all the idea of God.
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What can be more delightful than to have some one to whom you can say everything with the same absolute confidence as to yourself?
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What is dishonorably got, is dishonorably squandered.
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Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.
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Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly.
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Kindness is stronger than fear.
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What one has, one ought to use; and whatever he does, he should do with all his might.
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Never injure a friend, even in jest.
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No power on earth, if it labours beneath the burden of fear, can possibly be strong enough to survive.
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Dogs wait for us faithfully.
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