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True Quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero
- The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.
- What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true…
- The spirit is the true self. The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure.
- True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.
- True nobility is exempt from fear.
- We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only…
- The spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which can be pointed out by your finger.
- It is not easy to distinguish between true and false affection, unless there occur one of those crises in which, as gold is tried by…
- The spirit is the true self.
- Philosophy is true mother of the arts [of science].
- This excessive licence, which the anarchists think is the only true freedom, provides the stock, as it were, from which a tyrant grows.
- For there is but one essential justice which cements society, and one law which establishes this justice. This law is right reason, which is the…
- It is a true saying that 'one falsehood easily leads to another.'
- The first law for the historian is that he shall never dare utter an untruth. The second is that he shall suppress nothing that is…
- Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form reveals is not yourself;…
- A true friend is a sort of second self.
- True glory strikes root, and even extends itself; all false pretensions fall as do flowers, nor can any feigned thing be lasting.
- There are no true friends in politics.
- True law is right reason in agreement with nature;...it summons to duty by its commands, and averts from wrongdoing by its prohibitions...It is a sin…
- Apollo, sacred guard of earth's true core, Whence first came frenzied, wild prophetic word...
- The law in Athens is true in Rome
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