A room without books is like a body without a soul.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROOld age: the crown of life, our play’s last act.
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Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.
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No power on earth, if it labours beneath the burden of fear, can possibly be strong enough to survive.
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Freedom is participation in power.
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The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.
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Your enemies can kill you, but only your friends can hurt you.
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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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The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.
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What an ugly beast is the ape, and how like us.
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Not for ourselves alone are we born.
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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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Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body.
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It is a great thing to know your vices.
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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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The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intention.
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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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