Nothing cruel is in fact beneficial; for cruelty is extremely hostile to the nature of man, which we ought to follow.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROWe are all servants of the laws in order to be free.
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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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The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
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Old age: the crown of life, our play’s last act.
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The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.
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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
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Endless money forms the sinews of war.
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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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Not for ourselves alone are we born.
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Cultivation of the mind is as necessary as food to the body.
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Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.
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Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.
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No power on earth, if it labours beneath the burden of fear, can possibly be strong enough to survive.
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Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body.
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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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