For the whole life of a philosopher is, as the same philosopher says, a meditation on death.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROTo be rather than to seem.
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In times of war, the law falls silent.
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The welfare of the people is the highest law.
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Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?
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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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The life of the dead is set in the memory of the living.
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A man of faith is also full of courage.
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Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.
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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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Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.
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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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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.
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What is dishonorably got, is dishonorably squandered.
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Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.
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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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Old age: the crown of life, our play’s last act.
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