What one has, one ought to use; and whatever he does, he should do with all his might.
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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The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
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We are bound by the law, so that we may be free.
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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 fruit of too much liberty is slavery.
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It is a great thing to know your vices.
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The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intention.
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A room without books is like a body without a soul.
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The face is a picture of the mind with the eyes as its interpreter.
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The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.
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I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.
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Never injure a friend, even in jest.
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It is our own evil thoughts which madden us.
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What is sweeter than lettered ease?
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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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For the whole life of a philosopher is, as the same philosopher says, a meditation on death.
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Dogs wait for us faithfully.
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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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A friend is a second self.
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Ability without honor is useless.
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Wisdom is the only thing which can banish sorrow from the breast .
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The life of the dead is set in the memory of the living.
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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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Endless money forms the sinews of war.
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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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Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.
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