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Book Quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero
- If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
- A home without books is a body without soul.
- He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.
- We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers…
- 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,…
- Books are the food of youth, the delight of old age; the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity; a delight at home,…
- In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names.
- To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul.
- Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.
- Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor can thoughts be made to shine without the light of language.
- So it may well be believed that when I found him taking a complete holiday, with a vast supply of books at command, he had…
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