If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROFor the whole life of a philosopher is, as the same philosopher says, a meditation on death.
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Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.
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Endless money forms the sinews of war.
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To be content with what we possess is the greatest and most secure of riches.
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What an ugly beast is the ape, and how like us.
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The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intention.
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While there’s life, there’s hope.
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He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.
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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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Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.
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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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Instead let Virtue herself, by her own unaided allurements, summon you to a glory that is genuine and real.
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Not for ourselves alone are we born.
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The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.
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Your enemies can kill you, but only your friends can hurt you.
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I criticize by creation, not by finding fault.
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