Marcus Tullius Cicero

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"There is nothing so ridiculous [absurd*] but some philosopher has said it."	Miscellaneous
"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
"No Sane man will dance."	Men, Sanity
"A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues."	Art, Excellence, Virtue
"I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know."	Ignorance, Knowledge, Stupidity
"There is no place more delightful than home."	Darkness, Light
"I criticize by creation - not by finding fault."	Criticism
"Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief."	Friends, Happiness, Joy
"No one can give you better advice than yourself."	Miscellaneous
". . . 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
"Vivere est cogitare. (To think is to live)"	Life
"Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness."	Excellence, Poetry
"To be ignorant of what happened before you were born is to be ever a child. For what is man's lifetime unless the memory of past events is woven with those of earlier times?"	Change, History, Ignorance
"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
"A room without books is like a body without a soul."	Books
"A friend is, as it were, a second self."	Friends
"The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn."	Desires, Education, Learning
"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
"While there's life, there's hope."	Hope, Life, Wishing
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