To teach is a necessity, to please is a sweetness, to persuade is a victory.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROGratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.
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What is sweeter than lettered ease?
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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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What can be more delightful than to have some one to whom you can say everything with the same absolute confidence as to yourself?
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When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.
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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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No power on earth, if it labours beneath the burden of fear, can possibly be strong enough to survive.
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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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Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.
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Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.
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The closer the collapse of the Empire, the crazier its laws are.
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Knowledge which is divorced from justice may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
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I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.
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To be rather than to seem.
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It is our own evil thoughts which madden us.
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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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