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?
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROWhat is sweeter than lettered ease?
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Never injure a friend, even in jest.
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Ability without honor is useless.
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The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.
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Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.
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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 would rather be wrong, by God, with Plato than be correct with those men.
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He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.
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Knowledge which is divorced from justice may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
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A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
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The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
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A friend is a second self.
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The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.
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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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Your enemies can kill you, but only your friends can hurt you.
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Freedom will bite back more fiercely when suspended than when she remains undisturbed.
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