To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROTo teach is a necessity, to please is a sweetness, to persuade is a victory.
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What is sweeter than lettered ease?
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The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.
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I would rather be wrong, by God, with Plato than be correct with those men.
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Wisdom is the only thing which can banish sorrow from the breast .
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I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know.
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Endless money forms the sinews of war.
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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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To be content with what we possess is the greatest and most secure of riches.
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Life is nothing without friendship.
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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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It is our own evil thoughts which madden us.
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Law applied to its extreme is the greatest injustice.
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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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The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.
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