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Study carefully, the character of the one you recommend, lest their misconduct bring you shame.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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That which leads us to the performance of duty by offering pleasure as its reward, is not virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue. [Lat., Nam quae voluptate, quasi mercede aliqua, ad officium impellitur, ea non est virtus sed fallax imitatio simulatioque virtutis.]
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Our country is wherever we are well off. [Lat., Patria est, ubicunque est bene.]
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To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbial disgrace. [Lat., Culpa enim illa, bis ad eundem, vulgari reprehensa proverbio est.]
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O tempora! O mores! O what times (are these)! what morals!
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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.
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