I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROTo study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die.
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Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.
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A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
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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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To teach is a necessity, to please is a sweetness, to persuade is a victory.
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The closer the collapse of the Empire, the crazier its laws are.
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The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
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Your enemies can kill you, but only your friends can hurt you.
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The life of the dead is placed on the memories of the living. The love you gave in life keeps people alive beyond their time. Anyone who was given love will always live on in another’s heart.
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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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The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.
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It is a great thing to know your vices.
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We must not only obtain Wisdom: we must enjoy her.
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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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Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.
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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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