What is sweeter than lettered ease?
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROLove is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.
More Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes
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I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know.
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I would rather be wrong, by God, with Plato than be correct with those men.
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Freedom will bite back more fiercely when suspended than when she remains undisturbed.
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Old age: the crown of life, our play’s last act.
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What an ugly beast is the ape, and how like us.
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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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The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intention.
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Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.
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To make a mistake is only human; to persist in a mistake is idiotic.
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Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.
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Freedom is participation in power.
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The face is a picture of the mind with the eyes as its interpreter.
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It is a great thing to know your vices.
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To be rather than to seem.
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To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die.
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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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Endless money forms the sinews of war.
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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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While there’s life, there’s hope.
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The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
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When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.
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Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?
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It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.
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Wisdom is the only thing which can banish sorrow from the breast .
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Books: our unfailing companions.
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Cultivation of the mind is as necessary as food to the body.
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