When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERONo power on earth, if it labours beneath the burden of fear, can possibly be strong enough to survive.
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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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To be rather than to seem.
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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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I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.
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In all matters, before beginning, a diligent preparation should be made.
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A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
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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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Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself: if you heed yourself, you’ll never go wrong.
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Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
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The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intention.
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Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body.
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Kindness is stronger than fear.
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If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
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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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Life is nothing without friendship.
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While there’s life, there’s hope.
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In times of war, the law falls silent.
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To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die.
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For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.
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The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.
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Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.
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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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Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
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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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A room without books is like a body without a soul.
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