Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROThe shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.
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The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.
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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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Not for ourselves alone are we born.
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I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know.
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Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
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A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.
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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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The face is a picture of the mind with the eyes as its interpreter.
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The life of the dead is placed on the memories of the living. The love you gave in life keeps people alive beyond their time. Anyone who was given love will always live on in another’s heart.
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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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The welfare of the people is the highest law.
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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.
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It is a great thing to know your vices.
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Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.
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To teach is a necessity, to please is a sweetness, to persuade is a victory.
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