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We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Biography

Author Profession: Statesman
Nationality: Roman
Born: 106 BC
Died: 43 BC

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If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
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While there's life, there's hope.
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A man of courage is also full of faith.
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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 more laws, the less justice.
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To live is to think.
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You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.
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