Roman - Statesman | 106 BC - 43 BC
The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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While there's life, there's hope.
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I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.
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Hatred is settled anger.
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Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.
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Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.
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The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.
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Sweet is the memory of past troubles.
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Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.
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Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.
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The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.
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Thrift is of great revenue.
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