We must not only obtain Wisdom: we must enjoy her.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROTimes are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.
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In times of war, the law falls silent.
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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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But I must at the very beginning lay down this principle—friendship can only exist between good men.
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What one has, one ought to use; and whatever he does, he should do with all his might.
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Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
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Knowledge which is divorced from justice may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
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Old age: the crown of life, our play’s last act.
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The closer the collapse of the Empire, the crazier its laws are.
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The fruit of too much liberty is slavery.
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Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.
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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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Endless money forms the sinews of war.
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It is our own evil thoughts which madden us.
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Dogs wait for us faithfully.
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The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
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