Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROTime obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.
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Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
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Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.
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Not for ourselves alone are we born.
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To be content with what we possess is the greatest and most secure of riches.
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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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For the whole life of a philosopher is, as the same philosopher says, a meditation on death.
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It is our own evil thoughts which madden us.
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The life of the dead is set in the memory of the living.
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What an ugly beast is the ape, and how like us.
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Freedom is participation in power.
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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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In all matters, before beginning, a diligent preparation should be made.
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I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know.
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Wisdom is the only thing which can banish sorrow from the breast .
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The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
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