It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROA friend is a second self.
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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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Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.
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Instead let Virtue herself, by her own unaided allurements, summon you to a glory that is genuine and real.
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Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.
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What is dishonorably got, is dishonorably squandered.
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I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.
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Knowledge which is divorced from justice may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
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To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die.
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He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.
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Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself: if you heed yourself, you’ll never go wrong.
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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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If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.
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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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It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
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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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