When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROInstead let Virtue herself, by her own unaided allurements, summon you to a glory that is genuine and real.
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Books: our unfailing companions.
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Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.
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Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.
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Ability without honor is useless.
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If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
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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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To be content with what we possess is the greatest and most secure of riches.
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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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While there’s life, there’s hope.
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Knowledge which is divorced from justice may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.
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For the whole life of a philosopher is, as the same philosopher says, a meditation on death.
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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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To teach is a necessity, to please is a sweetness, to persuade is a victory.
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Your enemies can kill you, but only your friends can hurt you.
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We are all servants of the laws in order to be free.
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What is sweeter than lettered ease?
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Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.
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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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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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A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
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The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.
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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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What one has, one ought to use; and whatever he does, he should do with all his might.
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