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Which Quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero
- For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.
- Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just.
- Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.
- Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.
- Justice is the set and constant purpose which gives every man his due.
- Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.
- We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.
- The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.
- Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we…
- If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure…
- 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…
- Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
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