It is our own evil thoughts which madden us.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROFor 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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Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.
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It is a great thing to know your vices.
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Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.
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Never injure a friend, even in jest.
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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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Ability without honor is useless.
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A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
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Your enemies can kill you, but only your friends can hurt you.
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The closer the collapse of the Empire, the crazier its laws are.
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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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Freedom is participation in power.
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If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
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We are bound by the law, so that we may be free.
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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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A man of faith is also full of courage.
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Endless money forms the sinews of war.
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Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.
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I would rather be wrong, by God, with Plato than be correct with those men.
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The life of the dead is set in the memory of the living.
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What can be more delightful than to have some one to whom you can say everything with the same absolute confidence as to yourself?
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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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What an ugly beast is the ape, and how like us.
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Law applied to its extreme is the greatest injustice.
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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.
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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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The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intention.
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