The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROSilence is one of the great arts of conversation.
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To make a mistake is only human; to persist in a mistake is idiotic.
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A friend is a second self.
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What an ugly beast is the ape, and how like us.
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To teach is a necessity, to please is a sweetness, to persuade is a victory.
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Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
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We must not only obtain Wisdom: we must enjoy her.
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He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.
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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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I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know.
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Cultivation of the mind is as necessary as food to the body.
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For walk where we will, we tread upon some story.
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The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
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We are bound by the law, so that we may be free.
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Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
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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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The life of the dead is set in the memory of the living.
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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.
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Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly.
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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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Ability without honor is useless.
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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
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In all matters, before beginning, a diligent preparation should be made.
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Politicians are not born; they are excreted.
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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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We are all servants of the laws in order to be free.
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