Cultivation of the mind is as necessary as food to the body.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROHe only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.
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I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know.
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A room without books is like a body without a soul.
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Knowledge which is divorced from justice may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
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To 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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Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.
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To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die.
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The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intention.
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Books: our unfailing companions.
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Law applied to its extreme is the greatest injustice.
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The face is a picture of the mind with the eyes as its interpreter.
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Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.
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The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
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A friend is a second self.
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Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.
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Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.
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Nature herself has imprinted on the minds of all the idea of God.
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A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
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What is dishonorably got, is dishonorably squandered.
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For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.
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He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.
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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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Ability without honor is useless.
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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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Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.
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We are all servants of the laws in order to be free.
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