Marcus Tullius Cicero
"What an ugly beast is the ape, and how like us."
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"What an ugly beast is the ape, and how like us."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
"For walk where we will, we tread upon some story."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
"An unjust peace is better than a just war."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
"To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?"
Marcus Tullius Cicero
"Nescire autem quid antequam natus sis acciderit, id est semper esse puerum. (To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.)"
Marcus Tullius Cicero
"Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
"Freedom is a possession of inestimable value."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
"In times of war, the law falls s"
Marcus Tullius Cicero
"Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief"
Marcus Tullius Cicero
"For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
"Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
"When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's [children's] minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
"My dear Scipio and Laelius. Men, of course, who have no resources in themselves for securing a good and happy life find every age burdensome. But those who look for all happiness from within can never think anything bad which Nature makes inevitable."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
"I criticize by creation, not by finding fault."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
"What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
"O philosophy, life's guide! O searcher-out of virtue and expeller of vices! What could we and every age of men have been without thee? Thou hast produced cities; thou hast called men scattered about into the social enjoyment of life."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
"To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
"Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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