For walk where we will, we tread upon some story.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROThe closer the collapse of the Empire, the crazier its laws are.
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The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.
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But I must at the very beginning lay down this principle—friendship can only exist between good men.
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If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
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What one has, one ought to use; and whatever he does, he should do with all his might.
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Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself: if you heed yourself, you’ll never go wrong.
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To teach is a necessity, to please is a sweetness, to persuade is a victory.
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Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly.
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Never injure a friend, even in jest.
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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 life of the dead is set in the memory of the living.
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Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.
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The face is a picture of the mind with the eyes as its interpreter.
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To make a mistake is only human; to persist in a mistake is idiotic.
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Old age: the crown of life, our play’s last act.
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