Law applied to its extreme is the greatest injustice.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROThe function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
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Knowledge which is divorced from justice may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
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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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Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.
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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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To be rather than to seem.
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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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Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself: if you heed yourself, you’ll never go wrong.
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If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
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I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know.
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A room without books is like a body without a soul.
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Old age: the crown of life, our play’s last act.
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Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.
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Freedom is participation in power.
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It is a great thing to know your vices.
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What an ugly beast is the ape, and how like us.
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