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To live long it is necessary to live slowly.
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We are not born, we do not live for ourselves alone our country, our friends, have a share in us.
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Life without learning is death.
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I cannot find a faithful message-bearer, he wrote to his friend, the scholar Atticus. How few are they who are able to carry a rather weighty letter without lightening it by reading.
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No one can speak well, unless he thoroughly understands his subject.
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Man is his own worst enemy. [Lat., Nihil inimicius quam sibi ipse.]
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Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defence can actually be just.
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The happiest end of life is this: when the mind and the other senses being unimpaired, the same nature which put it together takes asunder her own work.
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What fervent love of herself would Virtue excite if she could be seen!
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We are born poets. we become orators.
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What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?
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Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.
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Favours out of place I regard as positive injuries.
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Man must suffer to be wise.
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Let every man practice the art that he knows best.
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They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper.
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There is no duty more indispensible than that of returning a kindness.
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When time and need require, we should resist with all our might, and prefer death to slavery and disgrace.
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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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Life is nothing without friendship.
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