“The well-known old remark of Cato, who used to wonder how two soothsayers could look one another in the face without laughing.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form reveals is not yourself; the spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which can be pointed out by your finger.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“Let arms yield to the toga, let the [victor’s] laurel yield to the [orator’s] tongue.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just.”
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“The sinews of war, a limitless supply of money.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“In time of war the laws are silent.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“Laws are silent in times of war.”
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“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
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“Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“A man of courage is also full of faith.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“While there’s life, there’s hope.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.”
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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“Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.”
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“Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.”
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“Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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