Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROEndless money forms the sinews of war.
More Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes
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What is dishonorably got, is dishonorably squandered.
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It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
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Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
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Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.
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Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.
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Politicians are not born; they are excreted.
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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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A room without books is like a body without a soul.
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Not for ourselves alone are we born.
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Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.
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Never injure a friend, even in jest.
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What is sweeter than lettered ease?
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The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
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Instead let Virtue herself, by her own unaided allurements, summon you to a glory that is genuine and real.
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Law applied to its extreme is the greatest injustice.
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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
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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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Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?
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A friend is a second self.
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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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While there’s life, there’s hope.
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The closer the collapse of the Empire, the crazier its laws are.
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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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Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body.
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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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Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly.
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