The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERONo power on earth, if it labours beneath the burden of fear, can possibly be strong enough to survive.
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Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.
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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.
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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?
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Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.
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Is not prosperity robbed of half its value if you have no one to share your joy?
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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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A mental stain can neither be blotted out by the passage of time nor washed away by any waters.
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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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Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.
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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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Knowledge which is divorced from justice may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
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The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.
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I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know.
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In times of war, the law falls silent.
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Freedom will bite back more fiercely when suspended than when she remains undisturbed.
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