Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROIt is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.
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Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.
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What is dishonorably got, is dishonorably squandered.
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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 happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
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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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He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.
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In times of war, the law falls silent.
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We must not only obtain Wisdom: we must enjoy her.
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To make a mistake is only human; to persist in a mistake is idiotic.
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Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly.
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Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.
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Books: our unfailing companions.
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Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.
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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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Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.
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