Cultivation of the mind is as necessary as food to the body.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROThe shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.
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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
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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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If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.
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We are bound by the law, so that we may be free.
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Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.
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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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The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.
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When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.
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Old age: the crown of life, our play’s last act.
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Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?
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In all matters, before beginning, a diligent preparation should be made.
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Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
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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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Freedom is participation in power.
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Never injure a friend, even in jest.
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Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.
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Kindness is stronger than fear.
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The fruit of too much liberty is slavery.
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What is dishonorably got, is dishonorably squandered.
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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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Knowledge which is divorced from justice may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
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Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.
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What one has, one ought to use; and whatever he does, he should do with all his might.
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To be content with what we possess is the greatest and most secure of riches.
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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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Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
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