But I must at the very beginning lay down this principle—friendship can only exist between good men.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROI am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know.
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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Cultivation of the mind is as necessary as food to the body.
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Wisdom is the only thing which can banish sorrow from the breast .
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What an ugly beast is the ape, and how like us.
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Instead let Virtue herself, by her own unaided allurements, summon you to a glory that is genuine and real.
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Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.
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For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.
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Law applied to its extreme is the greatest injustice.
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Freedom will bite back more fiercely when suspended than when she remains undisturbed.
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Knowledge which is divorced from justice may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
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A friend is a second self.
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The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
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It is our own evil thoughts which madden us.
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Dogs wait for us faithfully.
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The fruit of too much liberty is slavery.
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