To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROIt is a great thing to know your vices.
More Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes
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A room without books is like a body without a soul.
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Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body.
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A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
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In times of war, the law falls silent.
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The welfare of the people is the highest law.
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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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Freedom is participation in power.
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No power on earth, if it labours beneath the burden of fear, can possibly be strong enough to survive.
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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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Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.
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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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I would rather be wrong, by God, with Plato than be correct with those men.
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The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intention.
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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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A man of faith is also full of courage.
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The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
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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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Nature herself has imprinted on the minds of all the idea of God.
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It is a great thing to know your vices.
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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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Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.
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Cultivation of the mind is as necessary as food to the body.
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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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Law applied to its extreme is the greatest injustice.
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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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To be rather than to seem.
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