To teach is a necessity, to please is a sweetness, to persuade is a victory.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROA happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
More Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes
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Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.
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The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
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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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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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If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
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To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die.
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Nature herself has imprinted on the minds of all the idea of God.
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The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.
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Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.
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Endless money forms the sinews of war.
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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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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 the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.
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Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.
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Law applied to its extreme is the greatest injustice.
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We are all servants of the laws in order to be free.
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The life of the dead is placed on the memories of the living. The love you gave in life keeps people alive beyond their time. Anyone who was given love will always live on in another’s heart.
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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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Wisdom is the only thing which can banish sorrow from the breast .
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Not for ourselves alone are we born.
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What one has, one ought to use; and whatever he does, he should do with all his might.
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The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.
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Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.
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I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know.
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It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
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I would rather be wrong, by God, with Plato than be correct with those men.
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