A room without books is like a body without a soul.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROThe authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
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I would rather be wrong, by God, with Plato than be correct with those men.
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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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For the whole life of a philosopher is, as the same philosopher says, a meditation on death.
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The closer the collapse of the Empire, the crazier its laws are.
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If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
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Dogs wait for us faithfully.
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While there’s life, there’s hope.
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Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly.
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Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
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Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.
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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 mental stain can neither be blotted out by the passage of time nor washed away by any waters.
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I criticize by creation, not by finding fault.
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The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.
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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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