If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
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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Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
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But I must at the very beginning lay down this principle—friendship can only exist between good men.
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A man of faith is also full of courage.
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If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
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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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Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.
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The fruit of too much liberty is slavery.
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While there’s life, there’s hope.
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He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.
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Nature herself has imprinted on the minds of all the idea of God.
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Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.
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I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know.
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Freedom is participation in power.
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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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Wisdom is the only thing which can banish sorrow from the breast .
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Politicians are not born; they are excreted.
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Life is nothing without friendship.
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For walk where we will, we tread upon some story.
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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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What is sweeter than lettered ease?
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To be rather than to seem.
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Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.
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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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To teach is a necessity, to please is a sweetness, to persuade is a victory.
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Endless money forms the sinews of war.
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Books: our unfailing companions.
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