Politicians are not born; they are excreted.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROFriendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.
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To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die.
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A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.
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Is not prosperity robbed of half its value if you have no one to share your joy?
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Not for ourselves alone are we born.
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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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Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
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While there’s life, there’s hope.
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A friend is a second self.
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A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
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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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But I must at the very beginning lay down this principle—friendship can only exist between good men.
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Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.
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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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The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.
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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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