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#1

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

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#2

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
― Cicero

tags: books

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#3

“Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century:
Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others;
Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected;
Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it;
Refusing to set aside trivial preferences;
Neglecting development and refinement of the mind;
Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

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#4

“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

tags: history

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#5

“In times of war, the law falls silent.

Silent enim leges inter arma”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: freedom, human-rights, law, war

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#6

“Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.”
― Cicero

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#7

“If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: candor, honesty, truth-telling

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#8

“Non nobis solum nati sumus.

(Not for ourselves alone are we born.)”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: duty, helping-others, latin, self

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#9

“Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: friendship

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#10

“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: gratitude

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#11

“For there is but one essential justice which cements society, and one law which establishes this justice. This law is right reason, which is the true rule of all commandments and prohibitions. Whoever neglects this law, whether written or unwritten, is necessarily unjust and wicked.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero, Yasalar Üzerine

tags: commandments, essential, justice, law, reason, society

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#12

“Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labours of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: history, latin

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#13

“The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: cicero, learning, roman, school, study

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#14

“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

tags: books

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#15

“The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: fame, immortality, inspirational

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#16

“While there's life, there's hope.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: hope, life

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#17

“The life of the dead is set in the memory of the living.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero, Philippics

tags: dead, eternity, living, memory

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#18

“Politicians are not born; they are excreted.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

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#19

“The face is a picture of the mind with the eyes as its interpreter.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: eyes, face, interpreter, mind, picture

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#20

“The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero, De Senectute, De Amicitia

tags: friends, friendship, reliability, trust

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#21

“To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

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#22

“The life of the dead is placed on the memories of the living. The love you gave in life keeps people alive beyond their time. Anyone who was given love will always live on in another's heart.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

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#23

“I criticize by creation, not by finding fault.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: creation, creativity, criticism, wisdom, wisdom-quote, wise

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#24

“It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: ideas-are-power, intellect, progress

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#25

“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

tags: truth

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#26

“We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

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#27

“Life is nothing without friendship.”
― Cicero

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#28

“It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: advice-for-daily-living, fear-and-loathing, grief, inspirational, sorrow

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#29

“It is a great thing to know your vices.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

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#30

“A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

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