But I must at the very beginning lay down this principle—friendship can only exist between good men.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROTimes are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.
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Cultivation of the mind is as necessary as food to the body.
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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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Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.
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He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.
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Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself: if you heed yourself, you’ll never go wrong.
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For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.
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For walk where we will, we tread upon some story.
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A friend is a second self.
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What an ugly beast is the ape, and how like us.
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Life is nothing without friendship.
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Law applied to its extreme is the greatest injustice.
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The closer the collapse of the Empire, the crazier its laws are.
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Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.
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Kindness is stronger than fear.
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What can be more delightful than to have some one to whom you can say everything with the same absolute confidence as to yourself?
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