Marcus Tullius Cicero

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"Not to know the events which happened before one was born, that is to remain always a boy."	Knowledge, Wisdom
"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."	Faith, Hope, Learning
"The spirit is the true self."	Honesty, Truth
"While there's life, there's hope."	Hope, Life, Wishing
"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."	Age, Change, History
"Men in no way approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to men."	Evil, Good, Men
"The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil."	Miscellaneous
"A room without books is like a body without a soul."	Books
"Vivere est cogitare. (To think is to live)"	Life
"No one can give you better advice than yourself."	Miscellaneous
"A home without books is a body without soul."	Books
". . . for until that God who rules all the region of the sky. . . has freed you from the fetters of your body, you cannot gain admission here. Men were created with the understanding that they were to look after that sphere called Earth, which you see in the middle of the temple. Minds have been given to them out of the eternal fires you call fixed stars and planets, those spherical solids which, quickened with divine minds, journey through their circuits and orbits with amazing speed...."	Art, Freedom, Liberty
"There is nothing so ridiculous [absurd*] but some philosopher has said it."	Miscellaneous
"It is as hard for the good to suspect evil, as it is for the bad to suspect good."	Evil, Good
"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others."	Excellence, Virtue
"Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness."	Excellence, Poetry
"For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends."	Friends, Men
"Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability."	Ability, Education, Glory
"The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions."	Intentions
"Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief."	Friends, Happiness, Joy
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