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Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor can thoughts be made to shine without the light of language. (Cicero)
No one can speak well, unless he thoroughly understands his subject. View quote
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Our thoughts are free. View quote
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Strain every nerve to gain your point. View quote
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The evil implanted in man by nature spreads so imperceptibly, when the habit of wrong-doing is unchecked, that he himself can set no limit to his shamelessness. View quote
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All action is of the mind and the mirror of the mind is the face, its index the eyes. View quote
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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature. View quote
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Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form reveals is not yourself; the spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which and be pointed out by your finger. View quote
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Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him. View quote
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I will go further, and assert that nature without culture can often do more to deserve praise than culture without nature. View quote
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It is a true saying that "One falsehood leads easily to another". (Cicero)
There are some duties we owe even to those who have wronged us. There is, after all, a limit to retribution and punishment. View quote
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There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness. View quote
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We are obliged to respect, defend and maintain the common bonds of union and fellowship that exist among all members of the human race. View quote
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What we call pleasure, and rightly so is the absence of all pain. View quote
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When a government becomes powerful it is destructive, extravagant and violent it is an usurer which takes bread from innocent mouths and deprives honorable men of their substance, for votes with which to perpetuate itself. View quote
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It is not enough to acquire wisdom, it is necessary to employ it. View quote
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When the young die I am reminded of a strong flame extinguished by a torrent; but when old men die it is as if a fire had gone out without the use of force and of its own accord, after the fuel had been consumed. View quote
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Therefore the wise man is always happy. View quote
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He who obeys it not, flies from himself, and does violence to the very nature of man. For his crime he must endure the severest penalties hereafter, even if he avoid the usual misfortunes of the present life. View quote
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Were my protests against the downfall of our country wrong, because you might think they showed ingratitude? (Cicero)
For there is but one essential justice which cements society, and one law which establishes this justice. This law is right reason, which is the true rule of all commandments and prohibitions. View quote
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For fear is but a poor safeguard of lasting power; while affection, on the other hand, may be trusted to keep it safe for ever. View quote
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There is a true law, a right reason, conformable to nature, universal, unchangeable, eternal, whose commands urge us to duty, and whose prohibitions restrain us from evil. View quote
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The distinguishing property of man is to search for and to follow after truth. View quote
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