If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROTo be content with what we possess is the greatest and most secure of riches.
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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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While there’s life, there’s hope.
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Never injure a friend, even in jest.
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To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?
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A mental stain can neither be blotted out by the passage of time nor washed away by any waters.
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Endless money forms the sinews of war.
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It is our own evil thoughts which madden us.
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The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
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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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I would rather be wrong, by God, with Plato than be correct with those men.
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Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?
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What an ugly beast is the ape, and how like us.
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For walk where we will, we tread upon some story.
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Freedom will bite back more fiercely when suspended than when she remains undisturbed.
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To make a mistake is only human; to persist in a mistake is idiotic.
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If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
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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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Nature herself has imprinted on the minds of all the idea of God.
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To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die.
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The fruit of too much liberty is slavery.
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A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
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We must not only obtain Wisdom: we must enjoy her.
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Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
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Old age: the crown of life, our play’s last act.
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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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