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• I prefer the most unjust peace to the most righteous war. -- Cicero
• The good of the people is the highest law.
  -- Marcus Tullius Cicero "De Legibus" (106-43 BCE)...
• Virtue is its own reward. [and] Ignorance of good and evil is the most upsetting fact of human life.
  Marcus Tullius Cicero "De Finibus" (106-43 BCE)...
• There is not opinion so absurd that some philosopher will not express it.
  -- Marcus Tullius Cicero, "Ad familiare...
• I prefer the most unjust peace to the most righteous war.
  -- Cicero Even peace may be purchased at too high a price. -- Poor Richard...
• Persistence in one opinion has never been considered a merit in political leaders.
  -- Marcus Tullius Cicero, "Ad familiares", 1st century BC...
• Our character (mores) is not so much the product of race and heredity, as of circumstances by which nature forms habits, by which we are nourished and live.
  Marcus Tullius Cicero "De Lege Agraria" (106-43 BCE)...
• Ask of friends only what is honorable. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C.)