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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But I must at the very beginning lay down this principle—friendship can only exist between good men.
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To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?
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The 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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For the whole life of a philosopher is, as the same philosopher says, a meditation on death.
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A man of faith is also full of courage.
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It is a great thing to know your vices.
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If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
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If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
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Not for ourselves alone are we born.
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I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.
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He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.
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The face is a picture of the mind with the eyes as its interpreter.
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Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.
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Freedom will bite back more fiercely when suspended than when she remains undisturbed.
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While there’s life, there’s hope.
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