For 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 CICEROIf we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
More Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes
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We are all servants of the laws in order to be free.
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Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.
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It is a great thing to know your vices.
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Freedom will bite back more fiercely when suspended than when she remains undisturbed.
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A room without books is like a body without a soul.
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To be content with what we possess is the greatest and most secure of riches.
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A man of faith is also full of courage.
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Instead let Virtue herself, by her own unaided allurements, summon you to a glory that is genuine and real.
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Knowledge which is divorced from justice may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
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Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly.
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We must not only obtain Wisdom: we must enjoy her.
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What is sweeter than lettered ease?
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Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.
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Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.
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The life of the dead is set in the memory of the living.
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What is dishonorably got, is dishonorably squandered.
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While there’s life, there’s hope.
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Freedom is participation in power.
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Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.
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Nothing cruel is in fact beneficial; for cruelty is extremely hostile to the nature of man, which we ought to follow.
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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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Nature herself has imprinted on the minds of all the idea of God.
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Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
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The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.
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A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
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Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.
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