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Marcus Tullius Cicero
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We must be ever on the search for some persons whom we shall love and who will love us in return. If good will and affection are taken away, every joy is taken from life.
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What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?
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The master sometimes serves, and the servant sometimes is master.
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O tempora! O mores! O what times (are these)! what morals!
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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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There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften.
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The spirit is the true self.
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All the arts, which have a tendency to raise man in the scale of being, have a certain common band of union, and are connected, if I may be allowed to say so, by blood-relationship with one another.
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Everyone has his besetting sin.
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An acute first-class brain is the finest asset anyone can have- and, if we want to be happy, it is an asset we must exploit to the uttermost.
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The comfort derived from the misery of others is slight.
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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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The higher our position the more modestly we should behave.
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We should be as careful of our words as of our actions.
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Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.
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Let the punishment be proportionate to the offense.
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More laws, less justice.
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If you wish to persuade me, you must think my thoughts, feel my feelings, and speak my words.
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My precept to all who build, is, that the owner should be an ornament to the house, and not the house to the owner.
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What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us.
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