It is a great thing to know your vices.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROFor the whole life of a philosopher is, as the same philosopher says, a meditation on death.
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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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To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die.
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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
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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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When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.
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Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body.
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The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
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It is our own evil thoughts which madden us.
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What is dishonorably got, is dishonorably squandered.
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The closer the collapse of the Empire, the crazier its laws are.
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To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?
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The life of the dead is set in the memory of the living.
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To be content with what we possess is the greatest and most secure of riches.
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Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.
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Life is nothing without friendship.
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