A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROIs not prosperity robbed of half its value if you have no one to share your joy?
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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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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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No power on earth, if it labours beneath the burden of fear, can possibly be strong enough to survive.
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Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.
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In all matters, before beginning, a diligent preparation should be made.
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The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.
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Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.
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It is our own evil thoughts which madden us.
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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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For the whole life of a philosopher is, as the same philosopher says, a meditation on death.
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We are bound by the law, so that we may be free.
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The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
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Is not prosperity robbed of half its value if you have no one to share your joy?
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Knowledge which is divorced from justice may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
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A room without books is like a body without a soul.
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