Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.
Marcus Tullius CiceroRead
Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.
Interpretation
Trusting your own judgment is the best form of wisdom.
This quote emphasizes the importance of self-reliance and critical thinking. It suggests that the best advice comes not from others but from within oneself, highlighting the value of introspection and personal understanding in making decisions.
In practice
In a motivational speech about trusting oneself while making life choices.
Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.
Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defence can actually be just.
Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.
Nothing contributes to the entertainment of the reader more, than the change of times and the vicissitudes of fortune.
No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone.
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.
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
So as grave and learned men may doubt, without any imputation to them; for the most learned doubteth most, and the more ignorant for the most part are the more bold and peremptory.
When you exercise your freedom to express yourself at the lowest level, you ultimately condemn yourself to live at that level.
If you get a call to go to a certain place in the middle of the night to pick up stolen goods, and it turns out the stolen goods don't show up but the cops show up, I think you're going to have a very weak story saying, 'Well, I got swindled here.'
To know your faults and be able to change is the greatest virtue.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
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