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.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROA friend is a second self.
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The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.
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Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.
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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
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Books: our unfailing companions.
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Ability without honor is useless.
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Freedom is participation in power.
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If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
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Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.
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The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
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I would rather be wrong, by God, with Plato than be correct with those men.
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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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A room without books is like a body without a soul.
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It is a great thing to know your vices.
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To be content with what we possess is the greatest and most secure of riches.
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Wisdom is the only thing which can banish sorrow from the breast .
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