Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROThe function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
More Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes
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The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
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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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The welfare of the people is the highest law.
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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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To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die.
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Freedom will bite back more fiercely when suspended than when she remains undisturbed.
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Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
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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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The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.
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Wisdom is the only thing which can banish sorrow from the breast .
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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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Life is nothing without friendship.
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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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I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.
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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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