Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROLaw applied to its extreme is the greatest injustice.
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Nature herself has imprinted on the minds of all the idea of God.
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The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intention.
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The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
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He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.
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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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A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
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To be content with what we possess is the greatest and most secure of riches.
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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 closer the collapse of the Empire, the crazier its laws are.
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What one has, one ought to use; and whatever he does, he should do with all his might.
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Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.
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Wisdom is the only thing which can banish sorrow from the breast .
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Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.
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What an ugly beast is the ape, and how like us.
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It is our own evil thoughts which madden us.
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