The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROIt is our own evil thoughts which madden us.
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He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.
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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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Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.
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Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?
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Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.
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Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.
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Old age: the crown of life, our play’s last act.
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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.
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To make a mistake is only human; to persist in a mistake is idiotic.
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The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
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A mental stain can neither be blotted out by the passage of time nor washed away by any waters.
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When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.
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If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
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Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.
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Books: our unfailing companions.
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