The life of the dead is set in the memory of the living.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROOur span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly.
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Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
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Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.
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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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Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
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Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.
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Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.
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Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.
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Politicians are not born; they are excreted.
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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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A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.
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It is a great thing to know your vices.
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A friend is a second self.
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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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Is not prosperity robbed of half its value if you have no one to share your joy?
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