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Marcus Tullius Cicero
Roman
106 BC
Statesman
Nature abhors annihilation.
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Hatred is inveterate anger.
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Peace is liberty in tranquillity.
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Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.
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Whatever you do, do with all your might.
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The good of the people is the greatest law.
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A friend is, as it were, a second self.
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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.
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Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.
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Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.
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Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.
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The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.
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A room without books is like a body without a soul.
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The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body.
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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.
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Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.
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The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
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Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.
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You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.
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It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.
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Every
In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.
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Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.
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In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.
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To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning.
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It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.
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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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The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.
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Would
Were
It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.
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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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Than
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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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This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.
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Truth
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Even
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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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.
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Life
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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