Great is the power, great is the authority of a senate that is unanimous in its opinions.
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I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not
know.
[Lat., Non me pudet fateri ...
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Through ignorance of what is good and what is bad, the life of
men is greatly perplexed.
[Lat., I...
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Hell is paved with good intentions.
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) ![]()
From all sides there is equally a way to the lower world.
[Lat., Undique ad inferos tantundem viae...
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In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving
health to men.
[Lat., Homines ad d...
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Philosophy is true mother of the arts. (Science)
[Lat., Philosophia vero omnium mater artium.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) ![]()
Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and
moderation and reason.
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) ![]()
In the approach to virtue there are many steps.
[Lat., In virtute sunt multi adscensus.]
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It is the stain and disgrace of the age to envy virtue, and to be
anxious to crush the very flower ...
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Fewer possess virtue, than those who wish us to believe that they
possess it.
[Lat., Virtute enim...
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Honor is the reward of virtue.
[Lat., Honor est premium virtutis.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) ![]()
That which leads us to the performance of duty by offering
pleasure as its reward, is not virtue, b...
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The more virtuous any man is, the less easily does he suspect
others to be vicious.
[Lat., Nam ut...
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There are no true friends in politics.
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) ![]()
Nature abhors annihilation.
[Lat., Ab interitu naturam abhorrere.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) ![]()
Things perfected by nature are better than those finished by art.
[Lat., Meliora sunt ea quae natu...
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I am absolutely convinced that no wealth in the world can help
humanity forward, even in the hands ...
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Not to be avaricious is money; not to be fond of buying is a
revenue; but to be content with our ow...
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The chief recommendation [in a young man] is modesty, then
dutiful conduct toward parents, then aff...
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Not only is that an art in knowing a thing, but also a certain
art in teaching it.
[Lat., Nam non...
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It is difficult to tell how much men's minds are conciliated by a
kind manner and gentle speech.
...
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Justice extorts no reward, no kind of price; she is sought,
therefore, for her own sake.
[Lat., J...
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Justice renders to every one his due.
[Lat., Justitia suum cuique distribuit.]
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Extreme justice is extreme injustice.
[Lat., Summum jus, summa injuria.]
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Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.
[Lat., Meminerimus etiam adversu...
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The hope of impunity is the greatest inducement to do wrong.
[Lat., Maxima illecebra est peccandi ...
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To the sick, while there is life there is hope.
[Sp., Aegroto dum anima est, spes est.]
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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
[Lat., In animi securitate vitam beatam pon...
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It is a common saying that many pecks of salt must be eaten
before the duties of friendship can be ...
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There is no treasure the which may be compared unto a faithful
friend;
Gold some decayeth, and wo...
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You must therefore love me, myself, and not my circumstances, if
we are to be real friends.
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A friend is, as it were, a second self.
[Lat., Amicus est tanquam alter idem.]
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It is generally said, "Past labors are pleasant," Euripides says,
for you all know the Greek verse,...
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Learning is a kind of natural food for the mind.
[Lat., Doctrina est ingenii naturale quoddam pabu...
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Let our friends perish, provided that our enemies fall at the
same time.
[Lat., Pereant amici, du...
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Man is his own worst enemy.
[Lat., Nihil inimicius quam sibi ipse.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) ![]()
It is disgraceful when the passers-by exclaim, "O ancient house!
alas, how unlike is thy present m...
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When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to
the second or even the third rank.
...
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The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never
see the fruit.
[Lat., Abores ser...
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No well-informed person has declared a change of opinion to be
inconstancy.
[Lat., Nemo doctus un...
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At whose sight, like the sun,
All others with diminish'd lustre shone.
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) ![]()
Like, according to the old proverb, naturally goes with like.
[Lat., Pares autem vetere proverbio,...
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By some fortuitous concourse of atoms.
[Lat., Fortuito quodam concursu atomorum.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) ![]()
Calumny is only the noise of madmen.
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) ![]()
Nothing is so swift as calumny; nothing is more easily uttered;
nothing more readily received; noth...
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No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor
temperate, who considers pleasure the hi...
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First things first, second things never.
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The beginnings of all things are small.
[Lat., Omnium rerum principia parva sunt.]
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Guilt is present in the very hesitation, even though the deed be
not committed.
[Lat., In ipsa du...
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The rabble estimate few things according to their real value,
most things according to their prejud...
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That he was never less at leisure than when at leisure: nor that
he was ever less alone than when a...
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What one has, one ought to use; and whatever he does he should do
with all his might.
[Lat., Quod...
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What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to
teach and instruct our youth?
[Lat....
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Without your knowledge, the eyes and ears of many will see and
watch you, as they have done already...
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In all matters, before beginning, a diligent preparation should
be made.
[Lat., In omnibus negoti...
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No man was ever great without divine inspiration.
[Lat., Nemo vir magnus aliquo afflatu divino unq...
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Precaution is better than cure.
[Lat., Praestat cautela quam medela.]
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Prudence is the knowledge of things to be sought, and those to be
shunned.
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To err is human, but to persevere in error is only the act of a
fool.
[Lat., Cujusvis hominis est...
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Our country is wherever we are well off.
[Lat., Patria est, ubicunque est bene.]
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But in every matter the consensus of opinion among all nations is
to be regarded as the law of natu...
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The diseases of the mind are more and more destructive than those
of the body.
[Lat., Morbi perni...
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Unraveling the web of Penelope.
[Lat., Penelopae telam retexens.]
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He who hangs on the errors of the ignorant multitude, must not be
counted among great men.
[Lat.,...
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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.
[Lat., Gloria virtutem tanquam umbra sequitur.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) ![]()
Like lips like lettuce (i.e. like has met its like).
(Lat., Similem habent labra lactucam.]
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Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the
guilt; and also that some men do not s...
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As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him,
so I am no less pleased with an o...
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His deeds do not agree with his words.
[Lat., Facta ejus cum dictis discrepant.]
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Pleasure blinds (so to speak) the eyes of the mind, and has no
fellowship with virtue.
[Lat., Vol...
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Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men
are caught by it as fish by a hook....
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In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.
[Lat., Omnibus in rebus voluptatibus...
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These (literary) studies are the food of youth, and consolation
of age; they adorn prosperity, and ...
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It shows a weak mind not to bear prosperity as well as adversity
with moderation.
[Lat., Ut adver...
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In prosperity let us most carefully avoid pride, disdain, and
arrogance.
[Lat., In rebus prosperi...
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By Hercules! I prefer to err with Plato, whom I know how much
you value, than to be right in the c...
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Let the punishment be equal with the offence.
[Lat., Noxiae poena par esto.]
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I am of the opinion which you have always held, that "viva voce"
voting at elections is the best me...
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It is now possible for a flight attendant to get a pilot
pregnant.
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Let a man practise the profession he best knows.
[Lat., Quam quisque novit artem, in hac se exerce...
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There is no more sure tie between friends than when they are
united in their objects and wishes.
...
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Reason is the mistress and queen of all things.
[Lat., Domina omnium et regina ratio.]
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Prudence must not be expected from a man who is never sober.
[Lat., Non est ab homine nunquam sobr...
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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.
[Lat., Timor non est diuturnus magister officii.]
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It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of
others, and to forget his own.
[La...
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Men ought to be most annoyed by the sufferings which come from
their own faults.]
[Lat., Ea moles...
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Men think they may justly do that for which they have a
precedent.
[Lat., Quod exemplo fit, id et...
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The foundations of justice are that on one shall suffer wrong;
then, that the public good be promot...
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No one could ever meet death for his country without the hope of
immortality.
[Lat., Nemo unquam ...
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In extraordinary events ignorance of their causes produces
astonishment.
[Lat., Causarum ignorati...
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Habit is, as it were, a second nature.
[Lat., Consuetudo quasi altera natura effici.]
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All the arts which belong to polished life have some common tie,
and are connect as it were by some...
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So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not
to trust himself on the narrow edge...
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A liar is not believed even though he tell the truth.
[Lat., Mendaci homini ne verum quidem dicent...
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Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity
by sharing its griefs and anxieti...
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A man of courage is also full of faith.
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Can any one find in what condition his body will be, I do not say
a year hence, but this evening?
...
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Excessive liberty leads both nations and individuals into
excessive slavery.
[Lat., Nimia liberta...
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As thou sowest, so shalt thou reap.
[Sp., Ut sementem feceris, ita metes.]
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Ye immortal gods! where in the world are we?
[Lat., O dii immortales! ubinam gentium sumus?]
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I am pleased to be praised by a man so praised as you, father.
[Words used by Hector.]
[Lat., La...
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We are all exited by the love of praise, and the noblest are most
influenced by glory.
[Lat., Tra...
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What is dishonorably got, is dishonorably squandered.
[Lat., Male parta, male dilabuntur.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) To err is human, but to persevere in error is only the act of a
fool.
[Lat., Cujusvis hominis est...
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Modesty is that feeling by which honorable shame acquires a
valuable and lasting authority.
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He takes the greatest ornament from friendship, who takes modesty
from it.
[Lat., Maximum ornamen...
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The consciousness of good intention is the greatest solace of
misfortunes.
[Lat., Conscientia rec...
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The comfort derived from the misery of others is slight.
[Lat., Levis est consolatio ex miseria al...
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A sensual and intemperate youth hands over a worn-out body to old
age.
[Lat., Libidinosa etenim e...
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It is foolish to pluck out one's hair for sorrow, as if grief
could be assuaged by baldness.
[Lat...
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A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent
of all the other virtues.
[Lat.,...
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It is better to receive than to do an injury.
[Lat., Accipere quam facere injuiam praestat.]
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In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not
what you said or thought.
[Lat., ...
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O philosophy, life's guide! O searcher-out of virtue and
expeller of vices! What could we and eve...
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I shall always consider the best guesser the best prophet.
[Lat., Bene qui conjiciet, vatem hunc p...
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To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbial
disgrace.
[Lat., Culpa enim illa, bis ad...
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All places are filled with fools.
[Lat., Stultorum plenea sunt omnia.]
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A fool must now and then be right by chance.
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Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed (from
friendship).
[Lat., Assentatio, vit...
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It is fortune, not wisdom, that rules man's life.
[Lat., Vitam regit fortuna, non sapientia.]
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The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark
its intentions.
[Lat., Imago animi...
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Death darkens his eyes, and unplumes his wings,
Yet the sweetest song is the last he sings:
Li...
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The swan is not without cause dedicated to Apollo, because
foreseeing his happiness in death, he di...
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He used to raise a storm in a teapot.
[Lat., Excitabat enim fluctus in simpulo.]
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No one sees what is before his feet: we all gaze at the stars.
[Lat., Quod est ante pedes nemo sp...
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Nothing dries sooner than a tear.
[Lat., Nihil enim lacryma citius arescit.]
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It is better to wear out than to rust out.
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Never forget that no military leader has ever become great
without audacity.
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No sensible man (among the many things that have been written on
this kind) ever imputed inconsiste...
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There is nothing better fitted to delight the reader than change
of circumstances and varieties of ...
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Longing not so much to change things as to overturn them.
[Lat., Non tam commutandarum, quam evert...
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The memory of past troubles is pleasant.
[Lat., Jucunda memoria est praeteritorum malorum.]
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No wise man ever thought that a traitor should be trusted.
[Lat., Nemo unquam sapiens proditori cr...
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To-morrow will give some food for thought.
[Lat., Aliquod crastinus dies ad cogitandum dabit.]
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Any man may make a mistake; none but a fool will stick to it.
Second thoughts are best as the prov...
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Mental stains can not be removed by time, nor washed away by any
waters.
[Lat., Animi labes nec d...
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Were floods of tears to be unloosed
In tribute to my grief,
The doves of Noah ne'er had roost
...
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There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften.
[Lat., Nullus dolor est quem non longinqu...
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The dutifulness of children is the foundation of all virtues.
[Lat., Pietas fundamentum est omnium...
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I add this also, that natural ability without education has
oftener raised man to glory and virtue,...
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There is no place more delightful than one's own fireside.
[Lat., Nullus est locus domestica sede ...
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It is the act of a bad man to deceive by falsehood.
[Lat., Improbi hominis est mendacio fallere.]
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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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Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.
[Lat., Nemini fidas, nisi cum quo prius mul...
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To disregard what the world thinks of us is not only arrogant but
utterly shameless.
[Lat., Negli...
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I hear Socrates saying that the best seasoning for food is
hunger; for drink, thirst.
[Lat., Socr...
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He is sometimes slave who should be master; and sometimes master
who should be slave.
[Lat., Fit ...
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I prefer silent prudence to loquacious folly.
[Lat., Malo indisertam prudentiam, quam loquacem stu...
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There is no praise in being upright, where no one can, or tries
to corrupt you.
[Lat., Nulla est ...
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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.
[Lat., Vita enim mortuorum in memoria ...
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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.
[Lat., Memoria est thesaurus omnium rerum e cus...
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For to me every sort of peace with the citizens seemed to be of
more service than civil war.
[Lat...
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To freemen, threats are impotent.
[Lat., Nulla enim minantis auctoritas apud liberos est.]
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In a disturbed mind, as in a body in the same state, health can
not exist.
[Lat., In animo pertur...
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The forehead is the gate of the mind.
[Lat., Frons est animi janua.]
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The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the
soul of man.
[Lat., Animi cultus q...
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Certain signs precede certain events.
[Lat., Certis rebus certa signa praecurrunt.]
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I have never yet known a poet who did not think himself
super-excellent.
[Lat., Adhue neminem cog...
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When they hold their tongues they cry out.
[Lat., Cum tacent clamant.]
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What's the good of it? for whose advantage?
[Lat., Cui bono?]
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Men in no way approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to
men.
[Lat., Homines ad deos null...
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This is a proof of a well-trained mind, to rejoice in what is
good and to grieve at the opposite.
...
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Every evil in the bud is easily crushed; as it grows older, it
becomes stronger.
[Lat., Omne malu...
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Of evils one should choose the least.
[Lat., Ex malis eligere minima oportere.]
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Because all the sick do not recover, therefore medicine is not an
art.
[Lat., Aegri quia non omne...
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War leads to peace.
[Lat., Cedant arma togae.]
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The eyes, like sentinels, hold the highest place in the body.
[Lat., Oculi, tanquam, speculatores,...
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Our country is the common parent of all.
[Lat., Patria est communis omnium parens.]
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I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what inter...
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The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.
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The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.
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Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.
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Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.
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The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
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He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.
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A letter does not blush.
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As I give thought to the matter, I find four causes for the apparent misery of old age; first, it wi...
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True law is right reason in agreement with nature; it is of universal application, unchanging and ev...
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The administration of government, like a guardianship ought to be directed to the good of those who ...
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For of all gainful professions, nothing is better, nothing more pleasing, nothing more delightful, n...
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I am a Roman citizen.
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In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names.
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Justice is the crowning glory of the virtues.
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We must not only obtain Wisdom: we must enjoy her.
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Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.
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A room without books is like a body without a soul.
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We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glo...
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Ability without honor is useless.
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The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.
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It is certain that memory contains not only philosophy, but all the arts and all that appertain to t...
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Sweet is the memory of past troubles.
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The soil of their native land is dear to all the hearts of mankind.
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There is no fortune so strong that money cannot take it.
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Thrift is of great revenue.
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It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.
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Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century:
Believing that personal gain is made by ...
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Whatever that be which thinks, understands, wills, and acts. it is something celestial and divine.
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All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.
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...for until that God who rules all the region of the sky...has freed you from the fetters of your b...
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No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for having changed his opinion.
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Mother Superior jump the gun...
Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... 
Truth is a great flirt. 
Looper is another great film. 
The river of knowledge has no depth. 
The secret of my success is my hairspray. 
Love is blind, and a deaf-mute too. 
The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a... 
He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself 
Life is a re-discovery. 
Life Is a Misconception. 
It is a lie. 
The privilege of holding the priesthood, which is the power and authority to act in God's name, ... 
I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life... 
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can at it. 
Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters. 
Your mind is a Microcosm of strength and power. There’s all the magic you need in it. When all els... 
The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it. 
I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix. 
The fear of God is the only cure for the fear of people. 
Knowledge is power. 
Don’t let the enemy try to keep you bound with fear. The devil is a liar. Stay in faith and trust ... 
How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g... 
Love isn't the work of the tender and the gentle;
The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception... 
Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority. 
That's it really; it's all love, whichever way you look at it, it's all love. How much you can Get f... 
Without music, life is a journey through a desert. 
Life is a journey. When we stop, things don't go right. 
This is your fault. I'm going to kill you. And all the cake is gone.
Before I got here, I thought that the way out of the labyrinth was to pretend that it didn't exist, ... 
You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I ... 
It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most... 
A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in. 
Upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all. 
Our work is to present things that are as they are. 
I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.
The heart itself is only a small vessel, 
There is nothing impossible to him who will try. 
Peace is the first thing the angels sang. 
For to tempt and to be tempted are things very nearly allied - whenever feeling has anything to do i... 
I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not
know.
[Lat., Non me pudet fateri ... 
Through ignorance of what is good and what is bad, the life of
men is greatly perplexed.
[Lat., I... 
In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving
health to men.
[Lat., Homines ad d... 
I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what inter... 
The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured. 
Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.