But I must at the very beginning lay down this principle—friendship can only exist between good men.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROWhat is dishonorably got, is dishonorably squandered.
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It is our own evil thoughts which madden us.
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Your enemies can kill you, but only your friends can hurt you.
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Politicians are not born; they are excreted.
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Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.
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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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Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.
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Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.
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Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.
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Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body.
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While there’s life, there’s hope.
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Law applied to its extreme is the greatest injustice.
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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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Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly.
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Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.
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The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.
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