It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROThe function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
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Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.
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To be rather than to seem.
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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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He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.
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What an ugly beast is the ape, and how like us.
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Freedom is participation in power.
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To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die.
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What is dishonorably got, is dishonorably squandered.
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Law applied to its extreme is the greatest injustice.
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Old age: the crown of life, our play’s last act.
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For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.
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Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.
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Cultivation of the mind is as necessary as food to the body.
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The life of the dead is set in the memory of the living.
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It is a great thing to know your vices.
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