When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.
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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Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.
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Endless money forms the sinews of war.
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It is our own evil thoughts which madden us.
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Freedom will bite back more fiercely when suspended than when she remains undisturbed.
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Dogs wait for us faithfully.
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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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The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.
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The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.
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Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body.
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In times of war, the law falls silent.
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Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.
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If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
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The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.
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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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Old age: the crown of life, our play’s last act.
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