To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERODiseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body.
More Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes
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Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.
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What is sweeter than lettered ease?
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He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.
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The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
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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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Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.
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Dogs wait for us faithfully.
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A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.
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Life is nothing without friendship.
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It is a great thing to know your vices.
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To teach is a necessity, to please is a sweetness, to persuade is a victory.
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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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Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.
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Never injure a friend, even in jest.
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What can be more delightful than to have some one to whom you can say everything with the same absolute confidence as to yourself?
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In times of war, the law falls silent.
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To be content with what we possess is the greatest and most secure of riches.
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The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.
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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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The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.
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Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.
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A friend is a second self.
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We must not only obtain Wisdom: we must enjoy her.
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The welfare of the people is the highest law.
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We are bound by the law, so that we may be free.
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