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Let Us Assume That Entertainment Is The Sole End Of Reading; Even So I Think You Would Hold That No Mental Employment Is So Broadening To The Sympathies Or So Enlightening To The Understanding. Other Pursuits Belong Not To All Times, All Ages, All Conditions; But This Gives Stimulus To Our Youth And Diversion To Our Old Age; This Adds A Charm To Success, And Offers A Haven Of Consolation To Failure. Through The Night-watches, On All Our Journeyings, And In Our Hours Of Ease, It Is Our Unfailing Companion.

-Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Let Us Assume That Entertainment Is The Sole End Of Reading; Even So I Think You Would Hold That No Mental Employment Is So Broadening To The Sympathies Or So Enlightening To The Understanding. Other Pursuits Belong Not To All Times, All Ages, All Conditions; But This Gives Stimulus To Our Youth And Diversion To Our Old Age; This Adds A Charm To Success, And Offers A Haven Of Consolation To Failure. Through The Night-watches, On All Our Journeyings, And In Our Hours Of Ease, It Is Our Unfailing Companion.

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What Fervent Love Of Herself Would Virtue Excite If She Could Be Seen!

The Higher Our Position The More Modestly We Should Behave.

A Man Would Have No Pleasures In Discovering All The Beauties Of The Universe, Even In Heaven Itself, Unless He Had A Partner To Whom He Might Communicate His Joys.

There Is No Place More Delightful Than Home.

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I Do Not Now So Much As Wish To Have The Strength Of Youth Again That I Wish'd In Youth For The Strength Of An Ox Or Elephant. For It Is Our Business Only To Make The Best Use We Can Of The Powers Granted Us By Nature.

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No One Dances Sober, Unless He Is Insane.

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When War Is Raging The Laws Are Dumb.

Men Think They May Justly Do That For Which They Have A Precedent.

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You Must Therefore Love Me, Myself, And Not My Circumstances, If We Are To Be Real Friends.

Nature Abhors Annihilation. [lat., Ab Interitu Naturam Abhorrere.]

A Bureaucrat Is The Most Despicable Of Men, Though He Is Needed As Vultures Are Needed, But One Hardly Admires Vultures Whom Bureaucrats So Strangely Resemble. I Have Yet To Meet A Bureaucrat Who Was Not Petty, Dull, Almost Witless, Crafty Or Stupid, An Oppressor Or A Thief, A Holder Of Little Authority In Which He Delights, As A Boy Delights In Possessing A Vicious Dog. Who Can Trust Such Creatures?

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We Forget Our Pleasures, We Remember Our Sufferings.

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Nothing Is So Secure As That Money Will Not Defeat It.

Read At Every Wait; Read At All Hours; Read Within Leisure; Read In Times Of Labor; Read As One Goes In; Read As One Goest Out. The Task Of The Educated Mind Is Simply Put: Read To Lead.

The Causes Of Events Are Ever More Interesting Than The Events Themselves.

Man Was Born For Two Things--thinking And Acting.

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There Is No Thing Which God Cannot Accomplish.

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The Wise Man Never Loses His Temper.

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Whatever Befalls In Accordance With Nature Should Be Accounted Good.

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Let Arms Yield To The Toga, Let The [victor's] Laurel Yield To The [orator's] Tongue.

Endless Money Forms The Sinews Of War. [lat., Nervi Belli Pecunia Infinita.]

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It Is Foolish To Pluck Out One's Hair For Sorrow, As If Grief Could Be Assuaged By Baldness.

We Are Not Born For Ourselves Alone.

The Dutifulness Of Children Is The Foundation Of All Virtues.

The Devil Finds Work For Idle Hands To Do. Better To Reign In The Hell Than Serve In Heaven. We Are In Bondage To The Law In Order That We May Be Free.

Hunger Is The Best Sauce.

If Nature Does Not Ratify Law, Then All The Virtues May Lose Their Sway.

There Never Was A Great Soul That Did Not Have Some Divine Inspiration.

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In The Approach To Virtue There Are Many Steps.

If I Had More Time, I Would Have Written A Shorter Letter.

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It Is Not Easy To Distinguish Between True And False Affection, Unless There Occur One Of Those Crises In Which, As Gold Is Tried By Fire, So A Faithful Friendship May Be Tested By Danger.

This Wine Is Forty Years Old. It Certainly Doesn't Show Its Age.

That, Senators, Is What A Favour From Gangs Amounts To. They Refrain From Murdering Someone; Then They Boast That They Have Spared Him!

We Are All Excited By The Love Of Praise, And The Noblest Are Most Influenced By Glory.

Let The Soldier Yield To The Civilian.

No Power Is Strong Enough To Be Lasting, If It Labours Under The Weight Of Fear.

That Last Day Does Not Bring Extinction To Us, But Change Of Place.

If A Man Aspires To The Highest Place, It Is No Dishonor To Him To Halt At The Second, Or Even At The Third.

The First Duty Of Man Is The Seeking After And The Investigation Of Truth.

Death Is Not Natural For A State As It Is For A Human Being, For Whom Death Is Not Only Necessary, But Frequently Even Desirable.

Man Is His Own Worst Enemy. [lat., Nihil Inimicius Quam Sibi Ipse.]

In Extraordinary Events Ignorance Of Their Causes Produces Astonishment.

Let Flattery, The Handmaid Of The Vices, Be Far Removed .

You Must Become An Old Man In Good Time If You Wish To Be An Old Man Long. [lat., Mature Fieri Senem, Si Diu Velis Esses Senex.]

Saving The Virtues Includes All Other Advantages

Gratitude Is Not Only The Greatest Of Virtues, But The Parent Of All The Others.

A Good Orator Is Pointed And Impassioned.

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In Friendship We Find Nothing False Or Insincere; Everything Is Straight Forward, And Springs From The Heart.

Liberty Is Rendered Even More Precious By The Recollection Of Servitude.

There Are No True Friends In Politics.

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It Is Not Enough Merely Possess Virtue, As If It Were An Art; It Should Be Practiced.

Great Inspirational

What Is More Agreeable Than One's Home?

Fear Is Not A Lasting Teacher Of Duty.

What Then Is Freedom? The Power To Live As One Wishes.

We Must Not Only Obtain Wisdom: We Must Enjoy Her.

Virtue Is Its Own Reward.

The Master Sometimes Serves, And The Servant Sometimes Is Master.

Quo Usque Tandem Abutere, Catilina, Patientia Nostra? In Heaven's Name,catiline, How Long Will You Abuse Ourpatience?

More Laws, Less Justice.

I Look Upon The Pleasure Which We Take In A Garden As One Of The Most Innocent Delights In Human Life. . . It Gives Us A Great Insight Into The Contrivance And Wisdom Of Nature, And Suggests Innumerable Subjects For Meditation.

Nothing Is More Praiseworthy, Nothing More Suited To A Great And Illustrious Man Than Placability And A Merciful Disposition.

Enmity Is Anger Watching The Opportunity For Revenge.

As Thou Sowest, So Shalt Thou Reap.

Justice Extorts No Reward, No Kind Of Price; She Is Sought, Therefore, For Her Own Sake.

The Soul In Sleep Gives Proof Of Its Divine Nature.

Let Us Drink For The Replenishment Of Our Strength, Not For Our Sorrow

It Is The Soul Itself Which Sees And Hears, And Not Those Parts Which Are, As It Were, But Windows To The Soul.

Window To The Soul

The Precept, "know Yourself," Was Not Solely Intended To Obviate The Pride Of Mankind; But Likewise That We Might Understand Our Own Worth.

He Only Employs His Passion Who Can Make No Use Of His Reason.

We Should Be Careful That Our Benevolence Does Not Exceed Our Means.

Let War Be So Carried On That No Other Object May Seem To Be Sought But The Acquisition Of Peace. [lat., Bellum Autem Ita Suscipiatur, Ut Nihil Aliud, Nisi Pax, Quaesita Videatur.]

I Am Of The Opinion Which You Have Always Held, That "viva Voce" Voting At Elections Is The Best Method. [lat., Nam Ego In Ista Sum Sententia, Qua Te Fuisse Semper Scio, Nihil Ut Feurit In Suffragiis Voce Melius.]

Men Do Not Realize How Great An Income Thrift Is.

Robbing Life Of Friendship Is Like Robbing The World Of The Sun.

No One Can Speak Well, Unless He Thoroughly Understands His Subject.

There Is No Praise In Being Upright, Where No One Can, Or Tries To Corrupt You.

The Human Mind Ever Longs For Occupation.

The Gardener Plants Trees, Not One Berry Of Which He Will Ever See: And Shall Not A Public Man Plant Laws, Institutions, Government, In Short, Under The Same Conditions?

Summer Lasts Not For Ever; Seasons Succeed Each Other.

A S Laws Multiply, Injustice Increases.

The Whole Life Of A Philosopher Is The Meditation Of His Death.

Prudence In Action Avails More Than Wisdom In Conception.

It Is Not By Muscle, Speed, Or Physical Dexterity That Great Things Are Achieved, But By Reflection, Force Of Character, And Judgment.

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The More Virtuous Any Man Is, The Less Easily Does He Suspect Others To Be Vicious.

You Might As Well Take The Sun Out Of The Sky As Friendship From Life: For The Immortal Gods Have Given Us Nothing Better Or More Delightful.

Justice Is The Set And Constant Purpose Which Gives Every Man His Due.

It Has Seemed To Be More Necessary To Have Regard To The Weight Of Words Rather Than To Their Number.

I Wonder That A Soothsayer Doesn't Laugh Whenever He Sees Another Soothsayer.

Nature Has Granted The Use Of Life Like A Loan, Without Fixing Any Day For Repayment.

These Studies Are A Spur To The Young, A Delight To The Old: An Ornament In Prosperity, A Consoling Refuge In Adversity; They Are Pleasure For Us At Home, And No Burden Abroad; They Stay Up With Us At Night, They Accompany Us When We Travel, They Are With Us In Our Country Visits.

Virtue Is A Habit Of The Mind, Consistent With Nature And Moderation And Reason.

Care Must Be Taken That The Punishment Does Not Exceed The Offence.

Death Darkens His Eyes, And Unplumes His Wings, Yet The Sweetest Song Is The Last He Sings: Live So, My Love, That When Death Shall Come, Swan-like And Sweet It May Waft Thee Home.

Pleasant Is The Recollection Of Dangers Past.

There Were Poets Before Homer.

A Nation Can Survive Its Fools, And Even The Ambitious. But It Cannot Survive Treason From Within. An Enemy At The Gates Is Less Formidable, For He Is Known And Carries His Banner Openly. But The Traitor Moves Amongst Those Within The Gate Freely, His Sly Whispers Rustling Through All The Alleys, Heard In The Very Halls Of Government Itself.

World Government

It Is The Act Of A Bad Man To Deceive By Falsehood.

There Is No Grief Which Time Does Not Lessen And Soften.

Nothing Is So Unpredictable As A Throw Of The Dice, And Yet Every Man Who Plays Often Will At Some Time Or Other Make A Venus-cast: Now And Then He Indeed Will Make It Twice And Even Thrice In Succession. Are We Going To Be So Feebleminded Then As To Aver That Such A Thing Happened By The Personal Intervention Of Venus Rather Than By Pure Luck?

Rightly Defined Philosophy Is Simply The Love Of Wisdom.

There Is No Quality I Would Rather Have, And Be Thought To Have, Than Gratitude. For It Is Not Only The Greatest Virtue, But Is The Mother Of All The Rest.

Nothing Is More Disgraceful Than Insincerity.

Vicious Habits Are So Odious And Degrading That They Transform The Individual Who Practices Them Into An Incarnate Demon.

The Diligent Farmer Plants Trees, Of Which He Himself Will Never See The Fruit.

I Prefer Silent Prudence To Loquacious Folly. [lat., Malo Indisertam Prudentiam, Quam Loquacem Stultitiam.]

The Works Of Nature Must All Be Accounted Good.

Friendship Improves Happiness And Abates Misery, By The Doubling Of Our Joy And The Dividing Of Our Grief.

Plato Divinely Calls Pleasure The Bait Of Evil, Inasmuch As Men Are Caught By It As Fish By A Hook.

Patria Est Communis Omnium Parens. Our Country Is The Common Parent Of All.

It Is Certain That Memory Contains Not Only Philosophy, But All The Arts And All That Appertain To The Use Of Life.

The Life Given Us, By Nature Is Short; But The Memory Of A Well-spent Life Is Eternal.

Most Happy Is He Who Is Entirely Self-reliant, And Who Centers All His Requirements In Himself Alone.

The Impulse Which Directs To Right Conduct, And Deters From Crime, Is Not Only Older Than The Ages Of Nations And Cities, But Coeval With That Divine Being Who Sees And Rules Both Heaven And Earth.

The First Bond Of Society Is Marriage.

A Mental Stain Can Neither Be Blotted Out By The Passage Of Time Nor Washed Away By Any Waters.

No One Dies Too Soon Who Has Finished The Course Of Perfect Virtue.

The Foolishness Of Old Age Does Not Characterize All Who Are Old, But Only The Foolish.

Fortune Is Not Only Blind Herself, But Blinds The People She Has Embraced.

How Do Our Philosophers Act? Do They Not Inscribe Their Signatures To The Very Essays They Write On The Propriety Of Despising Glory.

The Administration Of Government, Like A Guardianship Ought To Be Directed To The Good Of Those Who Confer, Not Of Those Who Receive The Trust.

An Ancient Custom Obtains Force Of Nature.

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What An Ugly Beast The Ape, And How Like Us.

The Judgment Of Posterity Is Truer, Because It Is Free From Envy And Malevolence.

There Is Nothing Which God Cannot Do. [lat., Nihil Est Quod Deus Efficere Non Possit.]

Great Is The Power, Great Is The Authority Of A Senate That Is Unanimous In Its Opinions.

Our Country Is Wherever We Are Well Off. [lat., Patria Est, Ubicunque Est Bene.]

On The Subject Of The Nature Of The Gods, The First Question Is Do The Gods Exist Or Do The Not? It Is Difficult You May Say To Deny That They Exist. I Would Agree If We Were Arguing The Matter In A Public Assembly, But In A Private Discussion Of This Kind, It Is Perfectly Easy To Do So.

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