For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROWhat an ugly beast is the ape, and how like us.
More Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes
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The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
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The welfare of the people is the highest law.
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Politicians are not born; they are excreted.
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Endless money forms the sinews of war.
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Is not prosperity robbed of half its value if you have no one to share your joy?
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Knowledge which is divorced from justice may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
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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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A room without books is like a body without a soul.
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Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.
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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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Nature herself has imprinted on the minds of all the idea of God.
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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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I would rather be wrong, by God, with Plato than be correct with those men.
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While there’s life, there’s hope.
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Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.
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