Freedom will bite back more fiercely when suspended than when she remains undisturbed.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERONo power on earth, if it labours beneath the burden of fear, can possibly be strong enough to survive.
More Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes
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Old age: the crown of life, our play’s last act.
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Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself: if you heed yourself, you’ll never go wrong.
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Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
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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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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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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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Nature herself has imprinted on the minds of all the idea of God.
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For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.
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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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Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.
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Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
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I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know.
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A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
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He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.
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What is dishonorably got, is dishonorably squandered.
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