Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROThe countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intention.
More Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes
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A friend is a second self.
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If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
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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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Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
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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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It is a great thing to know your vices.
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Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.
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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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Freedom is participation in power.
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The closer the collapse of the Empire, the crazier its laws are.
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The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
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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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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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Wisdom is the only thing which can banish sorrow from the breast .
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We are bound by the law, so that we may be free.
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