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If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
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Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.
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To be ignorant of what happened before you were born is to be ever a child. For what is man's lifetime unless the memory of past events is woven with those of earlier times?
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What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun.
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Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.
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Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes.
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For one day spent well, and agreeably to your precepts, is preferable to an eternity of error.
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He departed, he withdrew, he strode off, he broke forth.
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It is besides necessary that whoever is brave should be a man of great soul.
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To what length will you abuse our patience, Catiline?
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This is the part of a great man, after he has maturely weighed all circumstances, to punish the guilty, to spare the many, and in every state of fortune not to depart from an upright, virtuous conduct.
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According to Cato the Elder, Scipio Africanus was wont to say that he was never less at leisure than when at leisure, nor less alone than when alone.
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Constant practice devoted to one subject often prevails over both ability and skill.
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There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.
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Who does not see this is senseless; who sees and still approves is ungodly.
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For if that last day does not occasion an entire extinction, but a change of abode only, what can be more desirable? And if it, on the other hand, destroys and absolutely puts an end to us, what can be preferable to having a deep sleep fall on us in the midst of the fatigues of life and, being thus overtaken, to sleep to eternity?
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Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.
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The recovery of freedom is so splendid a thing that we must not shun even death when seeking to recover it.
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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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I wonder... that a soothsayer doesn't laugh when he sees another soothsayer.
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History is truly the witness of times past, the light of truth, the life of memory, the teacher of life, the messenger of antiquity; whose voice, but the orator's, can entrust her to immortality?
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For it is not having insufficient knowledge, but persisting a long time in insufficient knowledge that is shameful; since the one is assumed to be a disease common to all, but the other is assumed to be a flaw to an individual.
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The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.
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It is not only arrogant, but it is profligate, for a man to disregard the world's opinion of himself.
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That which stands first, and is most to be desired by all happy, honest and healthy-minded men, is dignified leisure.
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Born:
January 3, 106 BC
Died:
December 7, 43 BC
(aged 62)
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Marcus Tullius Cicero was a Roman philosopher, politician, lawyer, orator, political theorist, consul, and constitutionalist.
Known for:
De Oratore
In Catilinam
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