When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROTo make a mistake is only human; to persist in a mistake is idiotic.
More Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes
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The welfare of the people is the highest law.
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Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.
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Endless money forms the sinews of war.
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Old age: the crown of life, our play’s last act.
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Life is nothing without friendship.
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Books: our unfailing companions.
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The fruit of too much liberty is slavery.
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I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.
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Is not prosperity robbed of half its value if you have no one to share your joy?
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To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die.
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Freedom will bite back more fiercely when suspended than when she remains undisturbed.
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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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Your enemies can kill you, but only your friends can hurt you.
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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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But I must at the very beginning lay down this principle—friendship can only exist between good men.
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