Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROBut I must at the very beginning lay down this principle – friendship can only exist between good men.
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To teach is a necessity, to please is a sweetness, to persuade is a victory.
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What can be more delightful than to have some one to whom you can say everything with the same absolute confidence as to yourself?
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Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.
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The closer the collapse of the Empire, the crazier its laws are.
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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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The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
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Instead let Virtue herself, by her own unaided allurements, summon you to a glory that is genuine and real.
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If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
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Not for ourselves alone are we born.
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Cultivation of the mind is as necessary as food to the body.
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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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Nature herself has imprinted on the minds of all the idea of God.
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I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.
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He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.
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Endless money forms the sinews of war.
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