Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROIt is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
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A room without books is like a body without a soul.
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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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Ability without honor is useless.
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To be content with what we possess is the greatest and most secure of riches.
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We are bound by the law, so that we may be free.
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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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While there’s life, there’s hope.
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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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It is our own evil thoughts which madden us.
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Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.
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Freedom will bite back more fiercely when suspended than when she remains undisturbed.
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What an ugly beast is the ape, and how like us.
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Law applied to its extreme is the greatest injustice.
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Never injure a friend, even in jest.
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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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A mental stain can neither be blotted out by the passage of time nor washed away by any waters.
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The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
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To make a mistake is only human; to persist in a mistake is idiotic.
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We must not only obtain Wisdom: we must enjoy her.
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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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Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.
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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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Knowledge which is divorced from justice may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
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Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.
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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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Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.
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