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.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROA mental stain can neither be blotted out by the passage of time nor washed away by any waters.
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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.
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The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
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Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.
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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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Freedom will bite back more fiercely when suspended than when she remains undisturbed.
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We are bound by the law, so that we may be free.
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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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No power on earth, if it labours beneath the burden of fear, can possibly be strong enough to survive.
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I would rather be wrong, by God, with Plato than be correct with those men.
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Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.
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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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Never injure a friend, even in jest.
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Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
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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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Law applied to its extreme is the greatest injustice.
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A mental stain can neither be blotted out by the passage of time nor washed away by any waters.
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A man of faith is also full of courage.
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Dogs wait for us faithfully.
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Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.
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Politicians are not born; they are excreted.
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It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
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The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.
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Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly.
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I criticize by creation, not by finding fault.
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Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
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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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