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For fear is but a poor safeguard of lasting power; while affection, on the other hand, may be trusted to keep it safe for ever.
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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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Apollo, sacred guard of earth's true core, Whence first came frenzied, wild prophetic word...
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No one is so old as to think that he cannot live one more year.
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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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What kind of favor is it to abstain from doing evil?
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Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.
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It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.
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We, on the contrary, make blessedness of life depend upon an untroubled mind, and exemption from all duties.
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Law is the highest reason implanted in Nature, which commands what ought to be done and forbids the opposite.
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To be content with what we possess is the greatest and most secure of riches.
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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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The administration of government, like a guardianship ought to be directed to the good of those who confer, not of those who receive the trust.
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Friendship is not to be sought for its wages, but because its revenue consists entirely in the love which it implies.
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Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion to vice.
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For he, indeed, who looks into the face of a friend beholds, as it were, a copy of himself.
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Hours and days and months and years go by; the past returns no more, and what is to be we cannot know; but whatever the time gives us in which we live, we should therefore be content.
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The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.
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These studies are a spur to the young, a delight to the old; an ornament in prosperity, a consoling refuge in adversity; they are pleasure for us at home, and no burden abroad; they stay up with us at night, they accompany us when we travel, they are with us in our country visits.
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Can you also, Lucullus, affirm that there is any power united with wisdom and prudence which has made, or, to use your own expression, manufactured man? What sort of a manufacture is that? Where is it exercised? When? Why? How?
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I follow nature as the surest guide, and resign myself with implicit obedience to her sacred ordinances.
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How long, Catiline, will you abuse our patience?
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In truth, O judges, while I wish to be adorned with every virtue, yet there is nothing which I can esteem more highly than being and appearing grateful. For this one virtue is not only the greatest, but is also the parent of all the other virtues.
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Lay down this rule of friendship: neither ask nor consent to do what is wrong. The plea, 'for friendship's sake,' is a discreditable one, and should not be admitted for a moment. We should ask from friends and do for friends only what is good.
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He removes the greatest ornament of friendship who takes away from it respect.
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Born:
January 3, 106 BC
Died:
December 7, 43 BC
(aged 62)
Bio:
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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