Books: our unfailing companions.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROOld age: the crown of life, our play’s last act.
More Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes
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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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Freedom is participation in power.
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Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.
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It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.
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I would rather be wrong, by God, with Plato than be correct with those men.
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A friend is a second self.
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To teach is a necessity, to please is a sweetness, to persuade is a victory.
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Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly.
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The closer the collapse of the Empire, the crazier its laws are.
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Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.
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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.
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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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It is a great thing to know your vices.
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The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.
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The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
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