The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROIf 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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I would rather be wrong, by God, with Plato than be correct with those men.
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What is sweeter than lettered ease?
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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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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
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To be rather than to seem.
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Instead let Virtue herself, by her own unaided allurements, summon you to a glory that is genuine and real.
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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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Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
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In times of war, the law falls silent.
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The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
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I criticize by creation, not by finding fault.
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We must not only obtain Wisdom: we must enjoy her.
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Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.
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Your enemies can kill you, but only your friends can hurt you.
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Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.
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Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.
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Dogs wait for us faithfully.
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For walk where we will, we tread upon some story.
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Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.
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Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.
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Law applied to its extreme is the greatest injustice.
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Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.
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If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
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It is our own evil thoughts which madden us.
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To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die.
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