For the whole life of a philosopher is, as the same philosopher says, a meditation on death.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROA friend is a second self.
More Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes
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Cultivation of the mind is as necessary as food to the body.
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While there’s life, there’s hope.
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What is dishonorably got, is dishonorably squandered.
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If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
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Politicians are not born; they are excreted.
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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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Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself: if you heed yourself, you’ll never go wrong.
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Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.
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Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.
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Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
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What an ugly beast is the ape, and how like us.
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The fruit of too much liberty is slavery.
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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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What is sweeter than lettered ease?
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Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?
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