When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROWisdom is the only thing which can banish sorrow from the breast .
More Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes
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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?
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The life of the dead is set in the memory of the living.
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A friend is a second self.
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The closer the collapse of the Empire, the crazier its laws are.
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The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.
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Old age: the crown of life, our play’s last act.
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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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To be content with what we possess is the greatest and most secure of riches.
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Not for ourselves alone are we born.
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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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What an ugly beast is the ape, and how like us.
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Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
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Wisdom is the only thing which can banish sorrow from the breast .
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Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.
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Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.
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