The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROTo be rather than to seem.
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Cultivation of the mind is as necessary as food to the body.
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Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?
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Law applied to its extreme is the greatest injustice.
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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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Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.
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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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The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.
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We are bound by the law, so that we may be free.
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Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
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We must not only obtain Wisdom: we must enjoy her.
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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
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Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.
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Kindness is stronger than fear.
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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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For the whole life of a philosopher is, as the same philosopher says, a meditation on death.
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