In all matters, before beginning, a diligent preparation should be made.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROA friend is a second self.
More Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes
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Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.
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He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.
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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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Ability without honor is useless.
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The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.
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A mental stain can neither be blotted out by the passage of time nor washed away by any waters.
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Life is nothing without friendship.
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It is our own evil thoughts which madden us.
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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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What one has, one ought to use; and whatever he does, he should do with all his might.
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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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But I must at the very beginning lay down this principle—friendship can only exist between good men.
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Politicians are not born; they are excreted.
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The closer the collapse of the Empire, the crazier its laws are.
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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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