Tag: Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Old age: the crown of life, our play’s last act.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Of all nature’s gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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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.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Like associates with like.
Marcus Tullius Cicero