For the whole life of a philosopher is, as the same philosopher says, a meditation on death.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROLife is nothing without friendship.
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Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.
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Old age: the crown of life, our play’s last act.
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Cultivation of the mind is as necessary as food to the body.
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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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Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.
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A friend is a second self.
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Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.
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The fruit of too much liberty is slavery.
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It is a great thing to know your vices.
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Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.
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I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know.
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The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.
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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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No power on earth, if it labours beneath the burden of fear, can possibly be strong enough to survive.
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To teach is a necessity, to please is a sweetness, to persuade is a victory.
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