To teach is a necessity, to please is a sweetness, to persuade is a victory.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROWhat is sweeter than lettered ease?
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Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.
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If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
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The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
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While there’s life, there’s hope.
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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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I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.
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Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.
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Freedom is participation in power.
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Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.
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To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die.
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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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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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Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
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Nothing cruel is in fact beneficial; for cruelty is extremely hostile to the nature of man, which we ought to follow.
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It is a great thing to know your vices.
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A man of faith is also full of courage.
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A friend is a second self.
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Old age: the crown of life, our play’s last act.
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The closer the collapse of the Empire, the crazier its laws are.
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To be rather than to seem.
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In times of war, the law falls silent.
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A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
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What is sweeter than lettered ease?
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Nature herself has imprinted on the minds of all the idea of God.
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It is our own evil thoughts which madden us.
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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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