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.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROEvery man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
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Freedom is participation in power.
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To be rather than to seem.
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Knowledge which is divorced from justice may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
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Cultivation of the mind is as necessary as food to the body.
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Kindness is stronger than fear.
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Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.
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He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.
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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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A room without books is like a body without a soul.
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Your enemies can kill you, but only your friends can hurt you.
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The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
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Ability without honor is useless.
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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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No power on earth, if it labours beneath the burden of fear, can possibly be strong enough to survive.
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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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