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Quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The safety of the people shall be the highest law.
The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
A man of courage is also full of faith.
Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.
What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.
A friend is, as it were, a second self.
As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.
Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
The more laws, the less justice.
Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.
If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.
Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.
Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.
Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.
The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.
Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.
While there's life, there's hope.
It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.
Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.
I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.
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