Nothing cruel is in fact beneficial; for cruelty is extremely hostile to the nature of man, which we ought to follow.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROA mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.
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Endless money forms the sinews of war.
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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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A man of faith is also full of courage.
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To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die.
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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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I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.
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Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.
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Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.
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A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.
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The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
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Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.
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Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.
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The closer the collapse of the Empire, the crazier its laws are.
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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
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A room without books is like a body without a soul.
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