Not for ourselves alone are we born.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROThe authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
More Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes
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Freedom will bite back more fiercely when suspended than when she remains undisturbed.
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The welfare of the people is the highest law.
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The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
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The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intention.
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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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He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.
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A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.
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Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
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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.
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Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?
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What an ugly beast is the ape, and how like us.
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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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What can be more delightful than to have some one to whom you can say everything with the same absolute confidence as to yourself?
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The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.
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