For the whole life of a philosopher is, as the same philosopher says, a meditation on death.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROIt is our own evil thoughts which madden us.
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A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
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Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.
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The life of the dead is set in the memory of the living.
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The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.
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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.
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The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.
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Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.
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The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intention.
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Books: our unfailing companions.
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Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.
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Not for ourselves alone are we born.
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Cultivation of the mind is as necessary as food to the body.
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I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know.
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Knowledge which is divorced from justice may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
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Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
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