The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.
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Quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The safety of the people shall be the highest law.
Wisdom
The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.
Wisdom
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
Friendship
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
Wisdom
A man of courage is also full of faith.
Courage
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.
Wisdom
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.
Friendship
A friend is, as it were, a second self.
Friendship
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.
Wisdom
Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
Wisdom
The more laws, the less justice.
Wisdom
Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.
Love
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.
Life
Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.
Wisdom
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.
Wisdom
Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.
Wisdom
Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.
Wisdom
The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.
Wisdom
Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.
Love
While there's life, there's hope.
Hope
It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.
Success
Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.
Wisdom
I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.
Wisdom
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