Books: our unfailing companions.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROI would rather be wrong, by God, with Plato than be correct with those men.
More Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes
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The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
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When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.
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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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A mental stain can neither be blotted out by the passage of time nor washed away by any waters.
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If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
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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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It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.
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In times of war, the law falls silent.
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Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
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The life of the dead is set in the memory of the living.
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Cultivation of the mind is as necessary as food to the body.
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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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What one has, one ought to use; and whatever he does, he should do with all his might.
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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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Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.
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