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Marcus Tullius Cicero
18 quotes
Quotes
- “What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to yo...”
- “O philosophy, life's guide! O searcher-out of virtue and expeller of vices! What could we and every age of men have been...”
- “When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's [children's] minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and r...”
- “The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and tryin...”
- “What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the...”
- “For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and di...”
- “Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.”
- “The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.”
- “Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.”
- “The face is a picture of the mind with the eyes as its interpreter.”
- “If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
- “To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die.”
- “Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.”
- “The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.”
- “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
- “I criticize by creation, not by finding fault.”
- “A friend is, as it were, a second self.”
- “While there's life, there's hope.”