I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROBut I must at the very beginning lay down this principle – friendship can only exist between good men.
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Law applied to its extreme is the greatest injustice.
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Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.
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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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A man of faith is also full of courage.
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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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What an ugly beast is the ape, and how like us.
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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
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Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.
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Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.
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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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To be content with what we possess is the greatest and most secure of riches.
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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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Life is nothing without friendship.
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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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He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.
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