If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROTo make a mistake is only human; to persist in a mistake is idiotic.
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Instead let Virtue herself, by her own unaided allurements, summon you to a glory that is genuine and real.
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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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The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.
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To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?
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The face is a picture of the mind with the eyes as its interpreter.
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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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Endless money forms the sinews of war.
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To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die.
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The fruit of too much liberty is slavery.
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Ability without honor is useless.
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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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What an ugly beast is the ape, and how like us.
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Nature herself has imprinted on the minds of all the idea of God.
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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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Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.
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