It is our own evil thoughts which madden us.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROBooks: our unfailing companions.
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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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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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The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intention.
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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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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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Not for ourselves alone are we born.
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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 is dishonorably got, is dishonorably squandered.
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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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To teach is a necessity, to please is a sweetness, to persuade is a victory.
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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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When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.
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I would rather be wrong, by God, with Plato than be correct with those men.
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He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.
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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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