We are bound by the law, so that we may be free.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROInstead let Virtue herself, by her own unaided allurements, summon you to a glory that is genuine and real.
More Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes
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Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.
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Ability without honor is useless.
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If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
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Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.
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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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Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.
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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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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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What one has, one ought to use; and whatever he does, he should do with all his might.
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I would rather be wrong, by God, with Plato than be correct with those men.
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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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But I must at the very beginning lay down this principle—friendship can only exist between good men.
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The welfare of the people is the highest law.
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Endless money forms the sinews of war.
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