To teach is a necessity, to please is a sweetness, to persuade is a victory.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROTimes are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.
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I would rather be wrong, by God, with Plato than be correct with those men.
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Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
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To be rather than to seem.
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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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While there’s life, there’s hope.
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It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.
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Freedom is participation in power.
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Politicians are not born; they are excreted.
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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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Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.
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Freedom will bite back more fiercely when suspended than when she remains undisturbed.
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Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body.
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Old age: the crown of life, our play’s last act.
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The face is a picture of the mind with the eyes as its interpreter.
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The life of the dead is set in the memory of the living.
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