The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROTo be content with what we possess is the greatest and most secure of riches.
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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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The closer the collapse of the Empire, the crazier its laws are.
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The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.
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Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.
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Old age: the crown of life, our play’s last act.
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What can be more delightful than to have some one to whom you can say everything with the same absolute confidence as to yourself?
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Books: our unfailing companions.
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It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.
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Wisdom is the only thing which can banish sorrow from the breast .
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To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die.
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To be rather than to seem.
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Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body.
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Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly.
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Not for ourselves alone are we born.
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Knowledge which is divorced from justice may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
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