The fruit of too much liberty is slavery.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROA mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.
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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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Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.
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Books: our unfailing companions.
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Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.
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Cultivation of the mind is as necessary as food to the body.
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The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intention.
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Wisdom is the only thing which can banish sorrow from the breast .
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Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.
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What an ugly beast is the ape, and how like us.
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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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Law applied to its extreme is the greatest injustice.
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The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.
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The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.
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Life is nothing without friendship.
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In times of war, the law falls silent.
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