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?
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROTo be content with what we possess is the greatest and most secure of riches.
More Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes
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To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die.
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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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Freedom will bite back more fiercely when suspended than when she remains undisturbed.
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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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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.
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Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
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Never injure a friend, even in jest.
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Wisdom is the only thing which can banish sorrow from the breast .
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Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body.
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It is our own evil thoughts which madden us.
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Nature herself has imprinted on the minds of all the idea of God.
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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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Instead let Virtue herself, by her own unaided allurements, summon you to a glory that is genuine and real.
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Ability without honor is useless.
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We must not only obtain Wisdom: we must enjoy her.
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