To make a mistake is only human; to persist in a mistake is idiotic.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROThe closer the collapse of the Empire, the crazier its laws are.
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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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Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.
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To teach is a necessity, to please is a sweetness, to persuade is a victory.
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What an ugly beast is the ape, and how like us.
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Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
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Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.
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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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Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.
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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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The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.
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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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We are bound by the law, so that we may be free.
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A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.
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Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body.
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When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.
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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.
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Nature herself has imprinted on the minds of all the idea of God.
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We must not only obtain Wisdom: we must enjoy her.
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Dogs wait for us faithfully.
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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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Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.
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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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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
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While there’s life, there’s hope.
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Cultivation of the mind is as necessary as food to the body.
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For walk where we will, we tread upon some story.
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