Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROFor walk where we will, we tread upon some story.
More Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes
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We are all servants of the laws in order to be free.
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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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In times of war, the law falls silent.
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Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.
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What an ugly beast is the ape, and how like us.
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We are bound by the law, so that we may be free.
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To be rather than to seem.
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Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.
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If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.
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Cultivation of the mind is as necessary as food to the body.
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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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A man of faith is also full of courage.
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If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
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Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?
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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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I would rather be wrong, by God, with Plato than be correct with those men.
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To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die.
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The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.
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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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The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
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A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
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The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
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Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.
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Politicians are not born; they are excreted.
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Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body.
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What is dishonorably got, is dishonorably squandered.
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