There are no snares more dangerous than those which lurk under the guise of duty or the name of relationship.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
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More Quotes By Marcus Tullius Cicero
  1. While there's life, there's hope.

  2. The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.

  3. It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

  4. Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.

  5. To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die.

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