The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROThe life of the dead is set in the memory of the living.
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The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intention.
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I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know.
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Wisdom is the only thing which can banish sorrow from the breast .
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He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.
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Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.
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It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
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The welfare of the people is the highest law.
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To teach is a necessity, to please is a sweetness, to persuade is a victory.
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Endless money forms the sinews of war.
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To make a mistake is only human; to persist in a mistake is idiotic.
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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.
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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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Your enemies can kill you, but only your friends can hurt you.
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What an ugly beast is the ape, and how like us.
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Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.
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