When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROTime obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.
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I criticize by creation, not by finding fault.
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What is sweeter than lettered ease?
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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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Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.
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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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Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.
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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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I would rather be wrong, by God, with Plato than be correct with those men.
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Freedom is participation in power.
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In times of war, the law falls silent.
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What an ugly beast is the ape, and how like us.
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Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?
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While there’s life, there’s hope.
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To be content with what we possess is the greatest and most secure of riches.
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To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die.
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