The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intention.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROTo 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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A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.
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The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.
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Dogs wait for us faithfully.
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He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.
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Is not prosperity robbed of half its value if you have no one to share your joy?
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To be content with what we possess is the greatest and most secure of riches.
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What an ugly beast is the ape, and how like us.
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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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The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.
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If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
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The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
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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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The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.
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A friend is a second self.
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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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In all matters, before beginning, a diligent preparation should be made.
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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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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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If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.
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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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The life of the dead is set in the memory of the living.
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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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Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself: if you heed yourself, you’ll never go wrong.
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To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die.
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Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?
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