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Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.
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I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.
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Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so.
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A home without books is a body without soul.
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Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.
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Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.
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A friend is, as it were, a second self.
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There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.
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Peace is liberty in tranquillity.
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What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?
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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.
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To live is to think.
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The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body.
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The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.
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The best interpreter of the law is custom.
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Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.
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The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.
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What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.
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Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.
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I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.
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The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.
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In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.
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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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I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.
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He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.
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Empire and liberty.
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What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.
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In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.
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One who sees the Supersoul accompanying the individual soul in all bodies and who understands that neither the soul nor the Supersoul is ever destroyed, actually sees.
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Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
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To some extent I liken slavery to death.
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True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.
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As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.
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The more laws, the less justice.
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Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.
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Laws are silent in time of war.
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Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.
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When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
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Never injure a friend, even in jest.
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The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.
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I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.
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Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.
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Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.
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Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.
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A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others.
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