Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROWhere is there dignity unless there is honesty?
More Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes
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To be rather than to seem.
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The closer the collapse of the Empire, the crazier its laws are.
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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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It is a great thing to know your vices.
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For the whole life of a philosopher is, as the same philosopher says, a meditation on death.
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While there’s life, there’s hope.
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A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
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Your enemies can kill you, but only your friends can hurt you.
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Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.
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The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.
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To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die.
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We are bound by the law, so that we may be free.
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I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know.
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The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
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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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