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Cicero Quotes

«A nation can survive its fools, even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within....for the traitor appears not to be a traitor...he rots the soul of a nation...he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist.»
«They do more harm by their evil example than by their actual sin.»
«What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?»
«The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.»
«Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.»
«The First Bond of Society is Marriage.»
«If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place.»
«A happy life consists in tranquillity of mind.»
«It is a great thing to know our vices.»
«It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others, and to forget his own, ... You can't clear your own fields while you're counting the rocks on your neighbor's farm.»

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