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“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero59 likes
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“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
“Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.”
“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.”
“It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.”
“Sed nescio quo modo nihil tam absurde dici potest quod non dicatur ab aliquo philosphorum. (There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.)”
“It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.”
“No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone.”
“Like associates with like.”
“What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.”
“No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.”
“The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.”
“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.”
“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.”
“When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.”
“No sane man will dance.”
“It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.”
“According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.”
“Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.”
“Laws are silent in time of war.”
“Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.”
“For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.”
“The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.”
“Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.”
“I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.”
“What is permissible is not always honorable.”
“In doubtful cases the more liberal interpretation must always be preferred.”
“To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.”
“Every man's reputation proceeds from those of his own household.”
“Ability without honor is useless.”
“Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.”
“The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.”
“Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.”
“He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.”
“The safety of the people shall be the highest law.”
“Hatred is inveterate anger.”
“It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.”
“Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.”
“Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.”
“True nobility is exempt from fear.”
“What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.”
“For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others.”
“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.”
“The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.”
“There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.”
“Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.”
“When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.”
“Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.”