To be rather than to seem.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROWhen you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.
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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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Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.
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What is dishonorably got, is dishonorably squandered.
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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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In times of war, the law falls silent.
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Life is nothing without friendship.
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To make a mistake is only human; to persist in a mistake is idiotic.
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To teach is a necessity, to please is a sweetness, to persuade is a victory.
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Old age: the crown of life, our play’s last act.
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I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know.
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It is a great thing to know your vices.
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Nature herself has imprinted on the minds of all the idea of God.
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He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.
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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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