If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROIf you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROTo be content with what we possess is the greatest and most secure of riches.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROWe must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROTo make a mistake is only human; to persist in a mistake is idiotic.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROIf we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROEvery man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROTo teach is a necessity, to please is a sweetness, to persuade is a victory.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROOur span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROSilence is one of the great arts of conversation.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROBut I must at the very beginning lay down this principle—friendship can only exist between good men.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROIn times of war, the law falls silent.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROFor the whole life of a philosopher is, as the same philosopher says, a meditation on death.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROI prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROA mental stain can neither be blotted out by the passage of time nor washed away by any waters.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROWe are bound by the law, so that we may be free.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROTime obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.
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