We are bound by the law, so that we may be free.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROThe causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.
More Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes
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I would rather be wrong, by God, with Plato than be correct with those men.
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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
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Nature herself has imprinted on the minds of all the idea of God.
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The closer the collapse of the Empire, the crazier its laws are.
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Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
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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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Old age: the crown of life, our play’s last act.
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The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.
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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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But I must at the very beginning lay down this principle—friendship can only exist between good men.
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If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
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To be rather than to seem.
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Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
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Books: our unfailing companions.
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A room without books is like a body without a soul.
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