Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself: if you heed yourself, you’ll never go wrong.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROA mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.
More Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes
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Books: our unfailing companions.
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The life of the dead is placed on the memories of the living. The love you gave in life keeps people alive beyond their time. Anyone who was given love will always live on in another’s heart.
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When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.
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We are bound by the law, so that we may be free.
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What an ugly beast is the ape, and how like us.
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Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.
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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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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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In all matters, before beginning, a diligent preparation should be made.
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It is a great thing to know your vices.
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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 life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.
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I criticize by creation, not by finding fault.
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We must not only obtain Wisdom: we must enjoy her.
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Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.
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A mental stain can neither be blotted out by the passage of time nor washed away by any waters.
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The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
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Old age: the crown of life, our play’s last act.
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A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
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What one has, one ought to use; and whatever he does, he should do with all his might.
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Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.
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The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intention.
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The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
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Nature herself has imprinted on the minds of all the idea of God.
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I would rather be wrong, by God, with Plato than be correct with those men.
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Ability without honor is useless.
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