It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROThe function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
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Ability without honor is useless.
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A friend is a second self.
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To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die.
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Old age: the crown of life, our play’s last act.
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Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?
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Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.
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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 shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.
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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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What one has, one ought to use; and whatever he does, he should do with all his might.
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A room without books is like a body without a soul.
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Your enemies can kill you, but only your friends can hurt you.
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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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Politicians are not born; they are excreted.
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Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.
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