No power on earth, if it labours beneath the burden of fear, can possibly be strong enough to survive.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROWhat one has, one ought to use; and whatever he does, he should do with all his might.
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Ability without honor is useless.
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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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Life is nothing without friendship.
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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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We are all servants of the laws in order to be free.
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To be rather than to seem.
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If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
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Instead let Virtue herself, by her own unaided allurements, summon you to a glory that is genuine and real.
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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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A friend is a second self.
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To teach is a necessity, to please is a sweetness, to persuade is a victory.
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Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.
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The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.
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Politicians are not born; they are excreted.
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The welfare of the people is the highest law.
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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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Endless money forms the sinews of war.
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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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While there’s life, there’s hope.
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It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.
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Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.
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Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?
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What can be more delightful than to have some one to whom you can say everything with the same absolute confidence as to yourself?
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The life of the dead is set in the memory of the living.
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Law applied to its extreme is the greatest injustice.
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