The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROFreedom will bite back more fiercely when suspended than when she remains undisturbed.
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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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The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.
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The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
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The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.
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The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.
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I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.
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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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I criticize by creation, not by finding fault.
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Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.
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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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To teach is a necessity, to please is a sweetness, to persuade is a victory.
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If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
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Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
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Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.
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It is a great thing to know your vices.
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