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Life without learning is death.

Life without learning is death.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

More laws, less justice.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Law, Justice, Liberty

A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Education, Science, Mind

A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Tyrants, Ambitious, Fool
Speaking to the Roman Senate, as recorded by Sallust in The Catiline War (c. 40 b.c.). This quotation is a favorite of CIA counterintelligence officers.

If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Education, Teacher, Letters

Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Yoga, Health, Soul
Tusculanarum Disputationum Bk III, Ch. 3

They condemn what they do not understand.

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Latin, Understanding, Criticism

Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Greatest Love, Next

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Inspirational, Education, Teacher

They who say that we should love our fellow-citizens but not foreigners, destroy the universal brotherhood of mankind, with which benevolence and justice would perish forever.

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Justice, Forever, Brotherhood

For out of such an ungoverned populace one is usually chosen as a leader, someone bold and unscrupulous who curries favor with the people by giving them other men's property. To such a man the protection of public office is given, and continually renewed. He emerges as a tyrant over the very people who raised him to power.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Men, Tyrants, People

Let the welfare of the people be the ultimate law.

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Latin, Law, People
"De Legibus (On the Laws)" book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Book III, section 3),

Through doubt we arrive at the truth.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Doubt

Those who do not know history will forever remain children

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Children, Forever, Knows

What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Believe, Gains, Action

Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum. (Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.)

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Political, Public Opinion, Investing

A home without books is a body without soul.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Book, Philosophical, Home

In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Philosophical, Power, Majority

As I give thought to the matter, I find four causes for the apparent misery of old age; first, it withdraws us from active accomplishments; second, it renders the body less powerful; third, it deprives us of almost all forms of enjoyment; fourth, it stands not far from death.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Powerful, Past, Giving
"De Senectute (On Old Age)". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Book 5, Section 15), 44 BC.

Man must suffer to be wise.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Wise, Men, Suffering

Man is his own worst enemy. [Lat., Nihil inimicius quam sibi ipse.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Men, Worst Enemy, Enemy

Anyone may fairly seek his own advantage, but no one has a right to do so at another's expense.

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May, Advantage, Expenses

We forget our pleasures, we remember our sufferings.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Suffering, Remember, Forget

The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Imitation

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Education, Knowledge, Knowing Who You Are

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