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Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act. (Cicero)
Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak. View quote
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Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes. View quote
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In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures. View quote
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Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature. View quote
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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow. View quote
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The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due. View quote
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The sinews of war are infinite money. View quote
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Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable. View quote
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Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so. View quote
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To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning. (Cicero)
Nature abhors annihilation. View quote
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No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself. View quote
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A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others. View quote
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For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others. View quote
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So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge. View quote
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True nobility is exempt from fear. View quote
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The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured. View quote
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Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge. View quote
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What is permissible is not always honorable. View quote
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Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education. (Cicero)
Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain. View quote
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We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names. View quote
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Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money. View quote
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If a man aspires to the highest place, it is no dishonor to him to halt at the second, or even at the third. View quote
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