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Friendship is the most pleasant of all things, and nothing more glads the heart of man.
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The generous mind adds dignity to every act, and nothing misbecomes it.
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The poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others.
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Man is neither by birth nor disposition a savage, nor of unsocial habits, but only becomes so by indulging in vices contrary to his nature.
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Cato used to assert that wise men profited more by fools than fools by wise men for that wise men avoided the faults of fools, but that fools would not imitate the good examples of wise men.
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Phocion compared the speeches of Leosthenes to cypress-trees. They are tall, said he, and comely, but bear no fruit.
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To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.
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Neither blame or praise yourself.
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He [Caesar] loved the treason, but hated the traitor.
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Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.
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He who least likes courting favour, ought also least to think of resenting neglect to feel wounded at being refused a distinction can only arise from an overweening appetite to have it.
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Nature without learning is like a blind man learning without Nature, like a maimed one practice without both, incomplete. As in agriculture a good soil is first sought for, then a skilful husbandman, and then good seed in the same way nature corresponds to the soil, the teacher to the husbandman, precepts and instruction to the seed.
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As small letters hurt the sight, so do small matters him that is too much intent upon them they vex and stir up anger, which begets an evil habit in him in reference to greater affairs.
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Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.
Plutarch
Caesar's wife should be above suspicion.
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Valour, however unfortunate, commands great respect even from enemies: but the Romans despise cowardice, even though it be prosperous.
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Fortune had favoured me in this war that I feared, the rather, that some tempest would follow so favourable a gale.
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He is a fool who leaves things close at hand to follow what is out of reach.
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Time which diminishes all things increases understanding for the aging.
Plutarch
Foreign lady once remarked to the wife of a Spartan commander that the women of Sparta were the only women in the world who could rule men. We are the only women who raise men, the Spartan lady replied.
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