I would rather be wrong, by God, with Plato than be correct with those men.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROThe welfare of the people is the highest law.
More Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes
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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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What is sweeter than lettered ease?
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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 an ugly beast is the ape, and how like us.
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For walk where we will, we tread upon some story.
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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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But I must at the very beginning lay down this principle—friendship can only exist between good men.
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He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.
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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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Cultivation of the mind is as necessary as food to the body.
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To be content with what we possess is the greatest and most secure of riches.
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The face is a picture of the mind with the eyes as its interpreter.
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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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