Never injure a friend, even in jest.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROFor the whole life of a philosopher is, as the same philosopher says, a meditation on death.
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In times of war, the law falls silent.
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What is sweeter than lettered ease?
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It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.
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Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
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I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.
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The closer the collapse of the Empire, the crazier its laws are.
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A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
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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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Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.
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For walk where we will, we tread upon some story.
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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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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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The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intention.
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It is our own evil thoughts which madden us.
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If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.
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