The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROSilence is one of the great arts of conversation.
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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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Freedom will bite back more fiercely when suspended than when she remains undisturbed.
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Old age: the crown of life, our play’s last act.
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While there’s life, there’s hope.
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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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Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.
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The closer the collapse of the Empire, the crazier its laws are.
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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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To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die.
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To be rather than to seem.
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Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body.
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Law applied to its extreme is the greatest injustice.
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We must not only obtain Wisdom: we must enjoy her.
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Life is nothing without friendship.
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He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.
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