Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROThe welfare of the people is the highest law.
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But I must at the very beginning lay down this principle—friendship can only exist between good men.
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Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.
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Your enemies can kill you, but only your friends can hurt you.
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Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.
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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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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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The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
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Law applied to its extreme is the greatest injustice.
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To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?
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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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We are all servants of the laws in order to be free.
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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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A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
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Is not prosperity robbed of half its value if you have no one to share your joy?
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If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
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