To be rather than to seem.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROWhat an ugly beast is the ape, and how like us.
More Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes
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The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.
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I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.
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The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
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The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.
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The closer the collapse of the Empire, the crazier its laws are.
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Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.
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What can be more delightful than to have some one to whom you can say everything with the same absolute confidence as to yourself?
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Nothing cruel is in fact beneficial; for cruelty is extremely hostile to the nature of man, which we ought to follow.
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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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Instead let Virtue herself, by her own unaided allurements, summon you to a glory that is genuine and real.
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Endless money forms the sinews of war.
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If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
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Old age: the crown of life, our play’s last act.
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Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself: if you heed yourself, you’ll never go wrong.
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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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