What is sweeter than lettered ease?
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROThe shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.
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Politicians are not born; they are excreted.
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In times of war, the law falls silent.
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Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
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Nothing cruel is in fact beneficial; for cruelty is extremely hostile to the nature of man, which we ought to follow.
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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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Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.
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Endless money forms the sinews of war.
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A friend is a second self.
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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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No power on earth, if it labours beneath the burden of fear, can possibly be strong enough to survive.
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Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.
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What one has, one ought to use; and whatever he does, he should do with all his might.
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Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.
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Books: our unfailing companions.
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To be content with what we possess is the greatest and most secure of riches.
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The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intention.
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Nature herself has imprinted on the minds of all the idea of God.
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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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The closer the collapse of the Empire, the crazier its laws are.
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We are all servants of the laws in order to be free.
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What an ugly beast is the ape, and how like us.
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Cultivation of the mind is as necessary as food to the body.
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Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?
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Never injure a friend, even in jest.
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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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Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself: if you heed yourself, you’ll never go wrong.
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