A room without books is like a body without a soul.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROA room without books is like a body without a soul.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROA mental stain can neither be blotted out by the passage of time nor washed away by any waters.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROFriendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROIf you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROWe must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROTo study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROWisdom is the only thing which can banish sorrow from the breast .
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROTo 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?
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROLove is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROThe fruit of too much liberty is slavery.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERONobody can give you wiser advice than yourself: if you heed yourself, you’ll never go wrong.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROEvery man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROIt is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROIt is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROI criticize by creation, not by finding fault.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROA mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.
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