Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

What an ugly beast is the ape, and how like us.
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Animal Human Savage Ugly
Nature herself has imprinted on the minds of all the idea of God.
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God Herself Ideas Mindset Nature
The welfare of the people is the highest law.
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Law People Safety
Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.
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Freedom Material Value
I would rather be wrong, by God, with Plato than be correct with those men.
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Correct God Man Myself Wrong
The face is a picture of the mind with the eyes as its interpreter.
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Eyes Mind Philosophy Picture
We are all servants of the laws in order to be free.
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Freedom Law Slave
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
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Evil Function Goodness Wisdom
Law applied to its extreme is the greatest injustice.
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Greatness Justice Law
To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?
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Born Children History Human Ignorance Life Worth
Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
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Art Greatness Silence Talk
Freedom is participation in power.
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Freedom Power
While there’s life, there’s hope.
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Hope Life
It is a great thing to know your vices.
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Greatness Vice Yourself
For walk where we will, we tread upon some story.
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Story Walk
Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.
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Memories Strong
Books: our unfailing companions.
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Book Company
To be rather than to seem.
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Be Yourself Existence
Endless money forms the sinews of war.
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End Money War
Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.
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Beautiful Friendship Inspirational Love Ourselves
Cultivation of the mind is as necessary as food to the body.
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Body Food Mindset Necessary
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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Crime Enemy Luxury
The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.
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Interesting Reason
In all matters, before beginning, a diligent preparation should be made.
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Beginning Preparation
The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
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Education Learning Obstacle Teaching
To make a mistake is only human; to persist in a mistake is idiotic.
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Human Mistake Philosophy
We are bound by the law, so that we may be free.
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Deep Freedom Law

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