The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROFreedom is participation in power.
More Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes
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To be rather than to seem.
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For walk where we will, we tread upon some story.
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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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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
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The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
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Is not prosperity robbed of half its value if you have no one to share your joy?
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Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself: if you heed yourself, you’ll never go wrong.
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What is dishonorably got, is dishonorably squandered.
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Ability without honor is useless.
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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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Law applied to its extreme is the greatest injustice.
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He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.
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Wisdom is the only thing which can banish sorrow from the breast .
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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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Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.
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If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
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Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.
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Knowledge which is divorced from justice may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
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Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
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Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.
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I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know.
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Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
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Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.
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Your enemies can kill you, but only your friends can hurt you.
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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.
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Cultivation of the mind is as necessary as food to the body.
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