The welfare of the people is the highest law.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROYour enemies can kill you, but only your friends can hurt you.
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Endless money forms the sinews of war.
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Not for ourselves alone are we born.
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The fruit of too much liberty is slavery.
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Wisdom is the only thing which can banish sorrow from the breast .
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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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The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.
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To teach is a necessity, to please is a sweetness, to persuade is a victory.
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A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.
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The life of the dead is placed on the memories of the living. The love you gave in life keeps people alive beyond their time. Anyone who was given love will always live on in another’s heart.
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I would rather be wrong, by God, with Plato than be correct with those men.
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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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Old age: the crown of life, our play’s last act.
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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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I criticize by creation, not by finding fault.
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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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