In all matters, before beginning, a diligent preparation should be made.
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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A man of faith is also full of courage.
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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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Not for ourselves alone are we born.
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We must not only obtain Wisdom: we must enjoy her.
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Kindness is stronger than fear.
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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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No power on earth, if it labours beneath the burden of fear, can possibly be strong enough to survive.
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A room without books is like a body without a soul.
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To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die.
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To make a mistake is only human; to persist in a mistake is idiotic.
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The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.
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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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To be rather than to seem.
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