Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROIt is a great thing to know your vices.
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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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What is sweeter than lettered ease?
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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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Nothing cruel is in fact beneficial; for cruelty is extremely hostile to the nature of man, which we ought to follow.
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Dogs wait for us faithfully.
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The welfare of the people is the highest law.
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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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A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.
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The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.
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The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.
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Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.
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I would rather be wrong, by God, with Plato than be correct with those men.
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The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intention.
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To be content with what we possess is the greatest and most secure of riches.
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Ability without honor is useless.
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