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.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROI would rather be wrong, by God, with Plato than be correct with those men.
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What is sweeter than lettered ease?
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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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To be rather than to seem.
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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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It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
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Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.
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I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know.
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Life is nothing without friendship.
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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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Never injure a friend, even in jest.
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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 mental stain can neither be blotted out by the passage of time nor washed away by any waters.
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It is our own evil thoughts which madden us.
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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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