Nothing cruel is in fact beneficial; for cruelty is extremely hostile to the nature of man, which we ought to follow.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROIn all matters, before beginning, a diligent preparation should be made.
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If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
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Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.
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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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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.
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He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.
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Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
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I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.
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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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It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.
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Never injure a friend, even in jest.
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Your enemies can kill you, but only your friends can hurt you.
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Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.
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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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Instead let Virtue herself, by her own unaided allurements, summon you to a glory that is genuine and real.
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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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