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We learn nothing from history except that we learn nothing from history.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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The hope of impunity is the greatest inducement to do wrong.
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Please go on, make your threats. I don't like to submit to mere implication.
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The more virtuous any man is, the less easily does he suspect others to be vicious.
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Even the ablest pilots are willing to receive advice from passengers in tempestuous weather.
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It is the soul itself which sees and hears, and not those parts which are, as it were, but windows to the soul.
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A home without books is a body without soul.
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If I am mistaken in my opinion that the human soul is immortal, I willingly err nor would I have this pleasant error extorted from me and if, as some minute philosophers suppose, death should deprive me of my being, I need not fear the raillery of those pretended philosophers when they are no more.
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The searching-out and thorough investigation of truth ought to be the primary study of man.
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No one sees what is before his feet: we all gaze at the stars. [Lat., Quod est ante pedes nemo spectat: coeli scrutantur plagas.]
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The spirit is the true self. The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure.
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The whole of virtue consists in its practice.
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Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed .
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Politeness and an affable address are our best introduction.
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The proof of a well-trained mind is that it rejoices in which is good and grieves at the opposite.
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It was fear that was then making you a good citizen, which is never a lasting teacher of duty.
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Always the same thing.
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Our minds are rendered buoyant by exercise.
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True glory takes root, and even spreads all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground nor can any counterfeit last long.
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To freemen, threats are impotent. [Lat., Nulla enim minantis auctoritas apud liberos est.]
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