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No one has lived a short life who has performed his duties with unblemished character. (Cicero)
Not to know what happened before one was born is always to be a child. View quote
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The beauty of the world and the orderly arrangement of everything celestial makes us confess that there is an excellent and eternal nature, which ought to be worshiped and admired by all mankind. View quote
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The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish. View quote
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What is so beneficial to the people as liberty, which we see not only to be greedily sought after by men, But also by beasts, and to be preferred to all things. View quote
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Justice is the crowning glory of the virtues. View quote
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While all other things are uncertain, evanescent, and ephemeral, virtue alone is fixed with deep roots it can neither be overthrown by any violence or moved from its place. View quote
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The man who commands efficiently must have obeyed others in the past, and the man who obeys dutifully is worthy of being some day a commander. View quote
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O philosophy, you leader of life. View quote
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Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary. View quote
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If a man could mount to heaven and survey the mighty universe, his admiration of its beauties would be much diminished unless he had some one to share in his pleasure. (Cicero)
It is as hard for the good to suspect evil As it is for the bad to suspect good. View quote
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Constant practice devoted to one subject often outdoes both intelligence and skill. Assiduus usus uni rei deditus et ingenium et artem saepe vincit. View quote
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Since an intelligence common to us all makes things known to us and formulates them in our minds, honorable actions are ascribed by us to virtue, and dishonorable actions to vice and only a madman would conclude that these judgments are matters of opinion, and not fixed by nature. View quote
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The following passage is one of those cited by Copernicus himself in his preface to De Revolutionibus 'The Syracusan Hicetas, as Theophrastus asserts, holds the view that the heaven, sun, moon, stars, and in short all of the things on high are stationary, and that nothing in the world is in motion except the earth, which by revolving and twisting round its axis with extreme velocity produces all the same results as would be produced if the earth were stationary and the heaven in motion....' View quote
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By doubting we come at truth. View quote
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A community is like the ones who govern it. View quote
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There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer. View quote
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Nothing so cements and holds together all the parts of a society as faith or credit, which can never be kept up unless men are under some force or necessity of honestly paying what they owe to one another. View quote
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Physicians, when the cause of disease is discovered, consider that the cure is discovered. View quote
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The multitude of fools is a protection to the wise. (Cicero)
Other relaxations are peculiar to certain times, places and stages of life, but the study of letters is the nourishment of our youth, and the joy of our old age. They throw an additional splendor on prosperity, and are the resource and consolation of adversity they delight at home, and are no embarrassment abroad in short, they are company to us at night, our fellow travelers on a journey, and attendants in our rural recesses. View quote
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He is an eloquent man who can treat humble subjects with delicacy, lofty things impressively, and moderate things temperately. View quote
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All things tend to corrupt perverted minds. View quote
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A careful physician ... before he attempts to administer a remedy to his patient, must investigate not only the malady of the man he wishes to cure, but also his habits when in health, and his physical constitution. View quote
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