It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROThe wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.
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Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.
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To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die.
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I would rather be wrong, by God, with Plato than be correct with those men.
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Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body.
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I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.
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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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Never injure a friend, even in jest.
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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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For the whole life of a philosopher is, as the same philosopher says, a meditation on death.
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Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.
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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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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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Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.
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The closer the collapse of the Empire, the crazier its laws are.
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Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.
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