I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROThe function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
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In times of war, the law falls silent.
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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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Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.
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Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.
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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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Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
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Old age: the crown of life, our play’s last act.
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To teach is a necessity, to please is a sweetness, to persuade is a victory.
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It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.
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The welfare of the people is the highest law.
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Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?
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The fruit of too much liberty is slavery.
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A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
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Instead let Virtue herself, by her own unaided allurements, summon you to a glory that is genuine and real.
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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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