Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROIt is a great thing to know your vices.
More Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes
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It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.
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Freedom is participation in power.
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I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know.
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Endless money forms the sinews of war.
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Law applied to its extreme is the greatest injustice.
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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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Politicians are not born; they are excreted.
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Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
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Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
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The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.
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Ability without honor is useless.
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He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.
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Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.
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We must not only obtain Wisdom: we must enjoy her.
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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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