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“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

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#3

“Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century:
Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others;
Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected;
Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it;
Refusing to set aside trivial preferences;
Neglecting development and refinement of the mind;
Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

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#4

“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 true rule of all commandments and prohibitions. Whoever neglects this law, whether written or unwritten, is necessarily unjust and wicked.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero, Yasalar Üzerine

tags: commandments, essential, justice, law, reason, society

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“Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labours of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: history, latin

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#6

“To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: history

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#7

“Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: friendship

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#8

“Non nobis solum nati sumus.

(Not for ourselves alone are we born.)”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: duty, helping-others, latin, self

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#9

“In times of war, the law falls silent.

Silent enim leges inter arma”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: freedom, human-rights, law, war

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#10

“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

tags: truth

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#11

“It is a great thing to know your vices.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

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#12

“Sed nescio quo modo nihil tam absurde dici potest quod non dicatur ab aliquo philosphorum. (There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.)”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero, Cicero: De Divinatione

tags: philosophy

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#13

“To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

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#14

“The life of the dead is set in the memory of the living.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero, Philippics

tags: dead, eternity, living, memory

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#15

“We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

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#16

“If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: candor, honesty, truth-telling

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#17

“God's law is 'right reason.' When perfectly understood it is called 'wisdom.' When applied by government in regulating human relations it is called 'justice.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

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#18

“The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero, De Senectute, De Amicitia

tags: friends, friendship, reliability, trust

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#19

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: accomplishment, attributed-no-source, be-yourself, conformity, individuality

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#20

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator

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#21

“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”
― Bill Keane

tags: attributed-no-source, hope, inspirational, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt, past, present, widely-misattributed

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#22

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

tags: friendship

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#23

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning

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#24

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

tags: humor, life

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#25

“I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough..”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

tags: love

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#26

“I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.”
― Jerome K. Jerome

tags: humor, work

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#27

“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
― Michael Cunningham, The Hours

tags: life, peace

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#28

“But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
― Khaled Hosseini

tags: life

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#29

“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
― Elbert Hubbard

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#30

“The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.”
― Jim Rohn

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#31

“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.”
― Jim Rohn

tags: self-improvement

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