Marcus Tullius Cicero

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". . . 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
"A friend is, as it were, a second self."	Friends
"A home without books is a body without soul."	Books
"A room without books is like a body without a soul."	Books
"A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues."	Art, 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
"For if that last day does not occasion an entire extinction, but a change of abode only, what can be more desirable? And if it, on the other hand, destroys and absolutely puts an end to us, what can be preferable to having a deep sleep fall on us in the midst of the fatigues of life and, being thus overtaken, to sleep to eternity?"	Ability, Change, Desires
"Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief."	Friends, Happiness, Joy
"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others."	Excellence, Virtue
"I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know."	Ignorance, Knowledge, Stupidity
"I criticize by creation - not by finding fault."	Criticism
"If you aspire to the highest place it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third."	Miscellaneous
"It is as hard for the good to suspect evil, as it is for the bad to suspect good."	Evil, Good
"Men in no way approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to men."	Evil, Good, Men
"Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability."	Ability, Education, Glory
"Never injure a friend, even in jest."	Friends
"No one can give you better advice than yourself."	Miscellaneous
"No Sane man will dance."	Men, Sanity
"Not to know the events which happened before one was born, that is to remain always a boy."	Knowledge, Wisdom
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