Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROIf 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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If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
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I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.
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Nature herself has imprinted on the minds of all the idea of God.
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What is dishonorably got, is dishonorably squandered.
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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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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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Cultivation of the mind is as necessary as food to the body.
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Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
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It is our own evil thoughts which madden us.
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The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.
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Your enemies can kill you, but only your friends can hurt you.
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Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
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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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The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.
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No power on earth, if it labours beneath the burden of fear, can possibly be strong enough to survive.
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What is sweeter than lettered ease?
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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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What one has, one ought to use; and whatever he does, he should do with all his might.
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We are bound by the law, so that we may be free.
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Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.
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The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.
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While there’s life, there’s hope.
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A man of faith is also full of courage.
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The face is a picture of the mind with the eyes as its interpreter.
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Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body.
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If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
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