What an ugly beast is the ape, and how like us.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROInstead let Virtue herself, by her own unaided allurements, summon you to a glory that is genuine and real.
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But I must at the very beginning lay down this principle—friendship can only exist between good men.
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Not for ourselves alone are we born.
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Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.
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In times of war, the law falls silent.
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The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.
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If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
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Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.
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To make a mistake is only human; to persist in a mistake is idiotic.
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Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body.
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Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
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To teach is a necessity, to please is a sweetness, to persuade is a victory.
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We are bound by the law, so that we may be free.
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Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.
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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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Law applied to its extreme is the greatest injustice.
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