It is our own evil thoughts which madden us.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROOur span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly.
More Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes
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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.
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A room without books is like a body without a soul.
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Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.
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Nothing cruel is in fact beneficial; for cruelty is extremely hostile to the nature of man, which we ought to follow.
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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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Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself: if you heed yourself, you’ll never go wrong.
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If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
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Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.
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Is not prosperity robbed of half its value if you have no one to share your joy?
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Life is nothing without friendship.
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Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.
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No power on earth, if it labours beneath the burden of fear, can possibly be strong enough to survive.
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Politicians are not born; they are excreted.
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If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.
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Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
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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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To make a mistake is only human; to persist in a mistake is idiotic.
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The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.
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The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intention.
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The fruit of too much liberty is slavery.
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A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.
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We are all servants of the laws in order to be free.
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Nature herself has imprinted on the minds of all the idea of God.
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Law applied to its extreme is the greatest injustice.
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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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Freedom will bite back more fiercely when suspended than when she remains undisturbed.
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