Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Instead let Virtue herself, by her own unaided allurements, summon you to a glory that is genuine and real.
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Herself Reality Virtue
A man of faith is also full of courage.
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Courage Faith Man
The life of the dead is set in the memory of the living.
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Death Life Live Memories
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
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Friendship Man Misery
Dogs wait for us faithfully.
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Dog Faith Loyalty Wait
If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
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Shame Talk Thinking
Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.
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Important Liberty
But I must at the very beginning lay down this principle—friendship can only exist between good men.
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Beginning Existence Friendship Goodness Man Myself
Not for ourselves alone are we born.
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Alone Born Ourselves
Is not prosperity robbed of half its value if you have no one to share your joy?
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Joy Prosperity Value Yourself
The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.
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Forever Life Memories Nature
What is dishonorably got, is dishonorably squandered.
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Crime Justice
A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
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Happiness Life Mindset Peace
What one has, one ought to use; and whatever he does, he should do with all his might.
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Action Oneself Strength
The fruit of too much liberty is slavery.
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Freedom Liberty One Liner Philosophy Slave
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
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Ability Education Man Virtue
It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.
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Forget Mistake Quality Weird
Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?
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Dignity Honesty
Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.
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Advice People Trust
Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.
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Character People Virtue
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.
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Book Death Heart Life Live Past Reason
The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intention.
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Eyes Soul Thinking
A room without books is like a body without a soul.
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Body Book Reading Soul
I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.
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Choice Myself Peace Right War
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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Beyond Death Heart Life Live Love Memories People Philosophy Place Time
For the whole life of a philosopher is, as the same philosopher says, a meditation on death.
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Death Life Philosophy
The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.
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Change Fortune Friendship Money

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