Books: our unfailing companions.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROFreedom is participation in power.
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It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.
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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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When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.
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Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.
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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.
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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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To be content with what we possess is the greatest and most secure of riches.
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We are bound by the law, so that we may be free.
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For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.
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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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In all matters, before beginning, a diligent preparation should be made.
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The life of the dead is placed on the memories of the living. The love you gave in life keeps people alive beyond their time. Anyone who was given love will always live on in another’s heart.
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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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What an ugly beast is the ape, and how like us.
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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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