Nature herself has imprinted on the minds of all the idea of God.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROThe life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.
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The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.
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The life of the dead is set in the memory of the living.
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But I must at the very beginning lay down this principle—friendship can only exist between good men.
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Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?
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I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.
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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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Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.
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The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intention.
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Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.
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The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
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We are bound by the law, so that we may be free.
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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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Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.
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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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Books: our unfailing companions.
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