Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROOld age: the crown of life, our play’s last act.
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I would rather be wrong, by God, with Plato than be correct with those men.
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The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.
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Knowledge which is divorced from justice may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
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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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The face is a picture of the mind with the eyes as its interpreter.
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The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
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A man of faith is also full of courage.
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If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.
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We must not only obtain Wisdom: we must enjoy her.
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Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
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Kindness is stronger than fear.
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Old age: the crown of life, our play’s last act.
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To teach is a necessity, to please is a sweetness, to persuade is a victory.
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Your enemies can kill you, but only your friends can hurt you.
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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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