Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.
Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.
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Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes
- Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
- As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.
- Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.
- There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.
- Peace is liberty in tranquillity.
- Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?
- The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.
- The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
- If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.
- Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.
Best Quotes
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- When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves.
- How goodness heightens beauty!
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