Freedom will bite back more fiercely when suspended than when she remains undisturbed.
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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Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.
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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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Endless money forms the sinews of war.
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It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.
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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 teach is a necessity, to please is a sweetness, to persuade is a victory.
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The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.
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When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.
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Freedom is participation in power.
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Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
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Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.
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Knowledge which is divorced from justice may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
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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 function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
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A room without books is like a body without a soul.
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