But I must at the very beginning lay down this principle—friendship can only exist between good men.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROBut I must at the very beginning lay down this principle—friendship can only exist between good men.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROI am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROThe enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROThe face is a picture of the mind with the eyes as its interpreter.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERONot for ourselves alone are we born.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROIt is our own evil thoughts which madden us.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROWhat is sweeter than lettered ease?
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROKnowledge which is divorced from justice may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROIs not prosperity robbed of half its value if you have no one to share your joy?
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 CICEROOld age: the crown of life, our play’s last act.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROThe function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROThe welfare of the people is the highest law.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROInstead let Virtue herself, by her own unaided allurements, summon you to a glory that is genuine and real.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROThe closer the collapse of the Empire, the crazier its laws are.
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