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Marcus Tullius Cicero

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More laws, less justice.
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Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.
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How great an evil do you see that may have been announced by you against the Republic? - Videtis quantum scelus contra rem publicam vobis nuntiatum sit?
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A community is like the ones who govern it.
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There is not a moment without some duty.
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It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity.
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For what people have always sought is equality before the law. For rights that were not open to all alike would be no rights.
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Fire and water are not of more universal use than friendship.
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Endless money forms the sinews of war. [Lat., Nervi belli pecunia infinita.]
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The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.
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The beauty of the world and the orderly arrangement of everything celestial makes us confess that there is an excellent and eternal nature, which ought to be worshiped and admired by all mankind.
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Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.
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What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.
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One who sees the Supersoul accompanying the individual soul in all bodies and who understands that neither the soul nor the Supersoul is ever destroyed, actually sees.
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We must not say that every mistake is a foolish one.
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Leisure consists in all those virtuous activities by which a man grows morally, intellectually, and spiritually. It is that which makes a life worth living.
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Friendship is nothing else than entire fellow feeling as to all things human and divine with mutual good-will and affection and I doubt whether anything better than this, wisdom alone excepted, has been given to man.
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Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself you will never err if you listen to your own suggestions.
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For every man's nature is concealed with many folds of disguise, and covered as it were with various veils. His brows, his eyes, and very often his countenance, are deceitful, and his speech is most commonly a lie.
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