Your enemies can kill you, but only your friends can hurt you.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROA mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.
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Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?
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The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.
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The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.
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What is sweeter than lettered ease?
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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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Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.
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Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.
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The closer the collapse of the Empire, the crazier its laws are.
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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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Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.
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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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The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intention.
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A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
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The welfare of the people is the highest law.
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What one has, one ought to use; and whatever he does, he should do with all his might.
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