I would rather be wrong, by God, with Plato than be correct with those men.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROBut I must at the very beginning lay down this principle – friendship can only exist between good men.
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For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.
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In times of war, the law falls silent.
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Cultivation of the mind is as necessary as food to the body.
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Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.
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The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.
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The welfare of the people is the highest law.
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While there’s life, there’s hope.
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We must not only obtain Wisdom: we must enjoy her.
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Freedom is participation in power.
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The life of the dead is set in the memory of the living.
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Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
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The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.
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Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body.
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Wisdom is the only thing which can banish sorrow from the breast .
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A mental stain can neither be blotted out by the passage of time nor washed away by any waters.
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