Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROWhat is dishonorably got, is dishonorably squandered.
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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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The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
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What is dishonorably got, is dishonorably squandered.
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Knowledge which is divorced from justice may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
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Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.
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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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I would rather be wrong, by God, with Plato than be correct with those men.
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It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
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To be content with what we possess is the greatest and most secure of riches.
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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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To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die.
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The closer the collapse of the Empire, the crazier its laws are.
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Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.
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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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A room without books is like a body without a soul.
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