Old age: the crown of life, our play’s last act.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROThe 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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Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.
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Knowledge which is divorced from justice may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
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It is a great thing to know your vices.
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Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.
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In times of war, the law falls silent.
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What is sweeter than lettered ease?
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To teach is a necessity, to please is a sweetness, to persuade is a victory.
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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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Cultivation of the mind is as necessary as food to the body.
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A room without books is like a body without a soul.
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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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No power on earth, if it labours beneath the burden of fear, can possibly be strong enough to survive.
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What can be more delightful than to have some one to whom you can say everything with the same absolute confidence as to yourself?
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Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
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A friend is a second self.
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