Freedom is participation in power.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROThe function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
More Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes
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I would rather be wrong, by God, with Plato than be correct with those men.
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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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To be content with what we possess is the greatest and most secure of riches.
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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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It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
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It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.
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He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.
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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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It is our own evil thoughts which madden us.
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Endless money forms the sinews of war.
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Nothing cruel is in fact beneficial; for cruelty is extremely hostile to the nature of man, which we ought to follow.
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The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.
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Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.
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Your enemies can kill you, but only your friends can hurt you.
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If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.
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