Not for ourselves alone are we born.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERONot for ourselves alone are we born.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROFor the whole life of a philosopher is, as the same philosopher says, a meditation on death.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROA friend is a second self.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROLove is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROThe enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROIt is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROTimes are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERONothing cruel is in fact beneficial; for cruelty is extremely hostile to the nature of man, which we ought to follow.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROThe wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROFor books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROI am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROKindness is stronger than fear.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERONobody can give you wiser advice than yourself: if you heed yourself, you’ll never go wrong.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROThe 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.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROTo study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROMemory is the treasury and guardian of all things.
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