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O tempora! O mores! O what times (are these)! what morals!
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.
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Lucius Cassius ille quem populus Romanus verissimum et sapientissimum iudicem putabat identidem in causis quaerere solebat 'cui bono' fuisset. The famous Lucius Cassius, whom the Roman people used to regard as a very honest and wise judge, was in the habit of asking, time and again, 'To whose benefit?
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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.
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All the arts of refinement have mutual kinship.
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Frugality includes all the other virtues.
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Thou shouldst eat to live not live to eat. [Lat., Esse oportet ut vivas, non vivere ut edas.]
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All places are filled with fools. [Lat., Stultorum plenea sunt omnia.]
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Each part of life has its own pleasures. Each has its own abundant harvest, to be garnered in season. We may grow old in body, but we need never grow old in mind and spirit. No one is as old as to think he or she cannot live one more year.
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People don't know the value of what they have until it is gone: Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.... Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude. Don't wait till freedom is gone before you enjoy, value, support, protect and make the most of it!
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The higher our position the more modestly we should behave.
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I prefer the wisdom of the uneducated to the folly of the loquacious.
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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.
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Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
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Please go on, make your threats. I don't like to submit to mere implication.
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Any man can make a mistake only a fool keeps making the same one.
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Hatred is settled anger.
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Every evil in the bud is easily crushed: as it grows older, it becomes stronger.
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Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.
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Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?
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