Marcus Tullius Cicero

Marcus Tullius Cicero

"A friend is, as it were, a second self."
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"A friend is, as it were, a second self."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
"Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
"Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
"The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
"It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
"Brevity is a great charm of eloquence."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
"Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
"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
"Silence is one of the great arts of conversation."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
"A man of courage is also full of faith."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
"We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
"In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
"So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
"This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
"Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
"True nobility is exempt from fear."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
"The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
"The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
"I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
"Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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