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An agreement of rash men (a conspiracy).

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Let the soldier yield to the civilian.
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There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness.
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I shall always consider the best guesser the best prophet.
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Come now: Do we really think that the gods are everywhere called by the same names by which they are addressed by us? But the gods have as many names as there are languages among humans. For it is not with the gods as with you: you are Velleius wherever you go, but Vulcan is not Vulcan in Italy and in Africa and in Spain.
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They condemn what they do not understand.
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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.
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Can there be greater foolishness than the respect you pay to people collectively when you despise them individually?
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Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.
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For hardly any man dances when sober, unless he is insane. Nor does he dance while alone, nor at a respectable and moderate party. Dancing is the final phase of a wild party with fancy decorations and a multitude of delights.
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Let a man practise the profession he best knows. [Lat., Quam quisque novit artem, in hac se exerceat.]
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Long life is denied us therefore let us do something to show that we have lived.
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He has no worse enemy than himself.
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Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.
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It is a great proof of talents to be able to recall the mind from the senses, and to separate thought from habit.
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We are bound by the law, so that we may be free.
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It is graceful in a man to think and to speak with propriety, to act with deliberation, and in every occurrence of life to find out and persevere in the truth. On the other hand, to be imposed upon, to mistake, to falter, and to be deceived, is as ungraceful as to rave or to be insane.
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