For the whole life of a philosopher is, as the same philosopher says, a meditation on death.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROA mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.
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The life of the dead is set in the memory of the living.
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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
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Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.
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What is dishonorably got, is dishonorably squandered.
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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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It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.
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Is not prosperity robbed of half its value if you have no one to share your joy?
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Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.
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Cultivation of the mind is as necessary as food to the body.
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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.
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To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die.
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Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.
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Knowledge which is divorced from justice may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
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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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Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.
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