The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROTo be rather than to seem.
More Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes
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What one has, one ought to use; and whatever he does, he should do with all his might.
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To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die.
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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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Freedom is participation in power.
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Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
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Your enemies can kill you, but only your friends can hurt you.
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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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A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.
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It is our own evil thoughts which madden us.
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I would rather be wrong, by God, with Plato than be correct with those men.
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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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Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.
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We are all servants of the laws in order to be free.
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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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