Cicero Quotes
+26Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.
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+24Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.
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+7We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
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+3A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues.
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+3The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.
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+1Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
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+1A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
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+1To give counsel as well as to take it is a feature of true friendship.
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+1The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends.
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+1The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
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+1An unjust peace is better than a just war.
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+1When they hold their tongues they cry out.
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+1It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity.
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+1Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.
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+1In the approach to virtue there are many steps.
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+1Honor is the reward of virtue.
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+1A good orator is pointed and impassioned.
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+1Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body.
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+1In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.
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+1There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it.
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+1The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the soul of man.
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+1In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men.
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+1A man’s own manner and character is what most becomes him.
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+1To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul.
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+1A letter does not blush.
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+1The most desirable thing in life after health and modest means is leisure with dignity.
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+1He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.
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+1In extraordinary events ignorance of their causes produces astonishment.
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+1I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.
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+1The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
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+1So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.
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+1I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.
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+1Who does not know that the first law of historical writing is the truth.
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+1Hatred is settled anger.
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+1Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.
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+1Habit is, as it were, a second nature.
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+1Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.
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+1It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
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+1One should eat to live, not live to eat.
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+1We were born to unite with our fellow men, and to join in community with the human race.
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