Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
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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We are bound by the law, so that we may be free.
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It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.
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Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.
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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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Old age: the crown of life, our play’s last act.
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Ability without honor is useless.
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We are all servants of the laws in order to be free.
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In times of war, the law falls silent.
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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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Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body.
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The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.
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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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Politicians are not born; they are excreted.
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Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.
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Freedom will bite back more fiercely when suspended than when she remains undisturbed.
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