What an ugly beast is the ape, and how like us.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROFriendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.
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What is sweeter than lettered ease?
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Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
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I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know.
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To be rather than to seem.
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Nothing cruel is in fact beneficial; for cruelty is extremely hostile to the nature of man, which we ought to follow.
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The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
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If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.
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To teach is a necessity, to please is a sweetness, to persuade is a victory.
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It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.
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Endless money forms the sinews of war.
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While there’s life, there’s hope.
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Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?
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In times of war, the law falls silent.
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When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.
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The welfare of the people is the highest law.
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Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
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Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.
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What can be more delightful than to have some one to whom you can say everything with the same absolute confidence as to yourself?
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Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.
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The life of the dead is set in the memory of the living.
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Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body.
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For the whole life of a philosopher is, as the same philosopher says, a meditation on death.
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For walk where we will, we tread upon some story.
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We are bound by the law, so that we may be free.
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A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.
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We must not only obtain Wisdom: we must enjoy her.
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