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| Cicero
A friend is a second self.A friend is, as it were, a second self. A home without books is a body without soul. A life of peace, purity, and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age. A man full of courage is also full of faith. A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation. A perverse temper and fretful disposition will make any state of life whatsoever unhappy. All adverse and depressing influences can be overcome, not by fighting, but by rising above them. Always the same. As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind. Ask not what your country can do for you, but rather what you can do for your country. Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator. Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself. Courage is the virtue which champions the cause of right. Delay and procrastination is troublesome. Few people come to old age. Freedom is a possession of inestimable value. Friendship makes prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it. Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others. He departed, he escaped, he rushed forth. Honor is the reward of virtue. How long now, Catiline, will you abuse our patience? I do not understand what the man who is happy wants in order to be happier. I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.I prefer the most unjust peace to the most righteous war.If a man aspires to the highest place, it is no dishonor to him to halt at the second, or even at the third. If the truth were self evident, eloquence would be unnecessary. Inability to tell good from evil is the greatest worry of a man's life. Inhumanity is troublesome in every generation. It is a delight to do nothing. It is a great thing to know our vices. It is a true saying that One falsehood leads easily to another. It is stupid to be afraid of that which you cannot avoid. It is the character of a brave and resolute man not to be ruffled by adversity and not to desert his post. May arms yield to the toga. May the safety of the people be the highest law. Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. No fortification is such that it cannot be subdued with money. No sane man will dance.Not to be covetous, is money; not to be a purchaser, is a revenue.Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge. Nothing is more uncertain than the masses. Nothing is so secure that money will not defeat it. Often it is not even useful to know what may be. Our fatherland is the common parent of everyone. People do not understand what a great revenue economy is. Romulus was not a king of barbarians, was he? Such praise coming from so degraded a source, was degrading to me, its recipient. Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes. The absolute good is not a matter of opinion but of nature. The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn. The beginnings of all things are small. The budget should be balanced, the treasury refilled, public debt reduced, the arrogance of officialdom tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands curtailed, lest Rome become bankrupt. The first duty of a man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth. The highest law is the greatest injustice. 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. The proof of a well-trained mind is that it rejoices in which is good and grieves at the opposite. There are many degrees in excellence. There are some duties we owe even to those who have wronged us. There is, after all, a limit to retribution and punishment. There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it. Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book. To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to always remain 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? We are all taken in by an enthusiasm for praise. We are slaves of the laws in order that we may be able to be free. We must not say every mistake is a foolish one. When they are silent, they are crying out. When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men'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. While the sick man has life there is hope. |
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