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If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

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 If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

Dec 12,2023

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#quotes #books #life #philosophy #Cicero #needs #Ad Familiares

Constant practice given to one matter often conquers both genius and art.

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 Constant practice given to one matter often conquers both genius and art.

Feb 17,2023

55

#quotes #philosophy #success #Cicero #Practice #effort #Pro Balbo

A war is never undertaken by the ideal state, except in defense of its honor or its safety.

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 A war is never undertaken by the ideal state, except in defense of its honor or its safety.

Jan 24,2022

107

#quotes #philosophy #war #politics #Cicero #De Re Publica

Friendship makes prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.

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 Friendship makes prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.

Apr 25,2021

114

#friends #quotes #life #friendship #philosophy #Cicero #Laelius De Amicitia #prosperity #adversity

Time destroys the fictions of error and opinion, while it confirms the determinations of nature and of truth.

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 Time destroys the fictions of error and opinion, while it confirms the determinations of nature and of truth.

Mar 20,2021

108

#time #quotes #philosophy #nature #truth #Cicero #opinions #error #De Natura Deorum

For such is the work of philosophy: it cures souls, draws off vain anxieties, confers freedom from desires, drives away fears.

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 For such is the work of philosophy: it cures souls, draws off vain anxieties, confers freedom from desires, drives away fears.

Feb 24,2021

136

#anxiety #quotes #philosophy #suffering #Fear #courage #freedom #liberty #Cicero #Tusculanae Disputationes

There is but one essential justice which cements society, and one law which establishes this justice. This law is right reason,...

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 There is but one essential justice which cements society, and one law which establishes this justice. This law is right reason,...

Jan 21,2021

136

#quotes #philosophy #society #politics #reason #rationality #Cicero #justice #law #De Legibus

I prefer uneloquent good sense to loquacious folly.

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 I prefer uneloquent good sense to loquacious folly.

Dec 16,2020

97

#quotes #philosophy #ethics #Cicero #speech #De Oratore #eloquence

Of all motives, none is better adapted to secure influence and hold it fast than love; nothing is more foreign to that end

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 Of all motives, none is better adapted to secure influence and hold it fast than love; nothing is more foreign to that end

Nov 19,2020

109

#love #quotes #motivation #philosophy #Fear #Cicero #De Officiis #influence

The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

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 The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

Oct 25,2020

149

#friends #quotes #life #friendship #philosophy #Cicero #Laelius De Amicitia #luck #fortune