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...the Counsels Of The Divine Mind Had Some Glimpse Of Truth When They Said That Men Are Born In Order To Suffer The Penalty For Sins Committed In A Former Life.

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Marcus Tullius Cicero

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...the Counsels Of The Divine Mind Had Some Glimpse Of Truth When They Said That Men Are Born In Order To Suffer The Penalty For Sins Committed In A Former Life.

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To Be Ignorant Of The Past Is To Be Forever A Child.

People Do Not Understand What A Great Revenue Economy Is.

Nothing Dries Sooner Than A Tear.

For A Tear Is Quickly Dried, Especially When Shed For The Misfortunes Of Others.

Misfortunes Of Others

This Is The Truth: As From A Fire Aflame Thousands Of Sparks Come Forth, Even So From The Creator An Infinity Of Beings Have Life And To Him Return Again.

Softly! Softly! I Want None But The Judges To Hear Me. The Jews Have Already Gotten Me Into A Fine Mess, As They Have Many Other Gentleman. I Have No Desire To Furnish Further Grist For Their Mills.

In The Approach To Virtue There Are Many Steps.

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

Yield, Ye Arms, To The Toga; To Civic Praise, Ye Laurels.

Please Go On, Make Your Threats. I Don't Like To Submit To Mere Implication.

Friendship Is Nothing Else Than An Accord In All Things, Human And Divine, Conjoined With Mutual Goodwill And Affection.

Ill Gotten Gains Will Be Ill Spent.

I Remember The Very Thing That I Do Not Wish To; I Cannot Forget The Things I Wish To Forget.

Through Doubt We Arrive At The Truth.

Men, In Whatever Anxiety They May Be, If They Are Men, Sometimes Indulge In Relaxation.

He Who Hangs On The Errors Of The Ignorant Multitude, Must Not Be Counted Among Great Men.

When Money Is Unreasonably Coveted, It Is A Disease Of The Mind Which Is Called Avarice.

Just As The Soul Fills The Body, So God Fills The World. Just As The Soul Bears The Body, So God Endures The World. Just As The Soul Sees But Is Not Seen, So God Sees But Is Not Seen. Just As The Soul Feeds The Body, So God Gives Food To The World.

There Are Some Duties We Owe Even To Those Who Have Wronged Us. There Is, After All, A Limit To Retribution And Punishment.

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?

To Stumble Twice Against The Same Stone, Is A Proverbial Disgrace. [lat., Culpa Enim Illa, Bis Ad Eundem, Vulgari Reprehensa Proverbio Est.]

We Make Allowance For Necessity.

The Man Who Commands Efficiently Must Have Obeyed Others In The Past, And The Man Who Obeys Dutifully Is Worthy Of Someday Being A Commander.

I Do Not Understand What The Man Who Is Happy Wants In Order To Be Happier.

It Is Not Enough To Acquire Wisdom, It Is Necessary To Employ It.

To Live Long It Is Necessary To Live Slowly.

To Reduce Man To The Duties Of His Own City, And To Disengage Him From Duties To The Members Of Other Cities, Is To Break The Universal Society Of The Human Race.

Friendship Embraces Innumerable Ends; Turn Where You Will It Is Ever At Your Side; No Barrier Shuts It Out; It Is Never Untimely And Never In The Way.

Honor Is The Reward Of Virtue.

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

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

He Has No Other Recommendation, Save An Assumed And Crafty Solemnity Of Demeanour.

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Not To Know What Happened Before You Were Born Is To Be A Child Forever. For What Is The Time Of A Man, Except It Be Interwoven With That Memory Of Ancient Things Of A Superior Age?

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

It Is Generally Said, "past Labors Are Pleasant," Euripides Says, For You All Know The Greek Verse, "the Recollection Of Past Labors Is Pleasant." [lat., Vulgo Enim Dicitur, Jucundi Acti Labores: Nec Male Euripides: Concludam, Si Potero, Latine: Graecum Enim Hunc Versum Nostis Omnes: Suavis Laborum Est Proeteritorum Memoria.

As Thou Sowest, So Shalt Thou Reap.

Scurrility Has No Object In View But Incivility; If It Is Uttered From Feelings Of Petulance, It Is Mere Abuse; If It Is Spoken In A Joking Manner, It May Be Considered Raillery.

An Agreement Of Rash Men (a Conspiracy).

That Is Probable Which For The Most Part Usually Comes To Pass, Or Which Is A Part Of The Ordinary Beliefs Of Mankind.

Now In Regard To Trades And Other Means Of Livelihood, Which Ones Are To Be Considered Becoming To A Gentleman And Which Ones Are Vulgar, We Have Been Taught, In General, As Follows. First, Those Means Of Livelihood Are Rejected As Undesirable Which Incur People's Ill-will, As Those Of Tax-gatherers And Usurers. Unbecoming To A Gentleman, Too, And Vulgar Are The Means Of Livelihood Of All Hired Workmen Whom We Pay For Mere Manual Labour, Not For Artistic Skill; For In Their Case The Very Wage They Receive Is A Pledge Of Their Slavery.

What Is So Beneficial To The People As Liberty, Which We See Not Only To Be Greedily Sought After By Men, But Also By Beasts, And To Be Prepared In All Things.

From All Sides There Is Equally A Way To The Lower World.

Opinionum Enim Commenta Delet Dies; Naturæ Judicia Confirmat. Time Destroys The Groundless Conceits Of Men; It Confirms Decisions Founded On Reality.

There Is Pleasure In Calm Remembrance Of A Past Sorrow.

Great Is Our Admiration Of The Orator Who Speaks With Fluency And Discretion.

This Is Our Special Duty, That If Anyone Specially Needs Our Help, We Should Give Him Such Help To The Utmost Of Our Power.

Studies Are The Food Of Youth, The Delight Of Old Age; The Ornament Of Prosperity, The Refuge And Comfort Of Adversity; A Delight At Home, And No Hindrance Abroad; They Are Companions By Night, And In Travel, And In The Country.

A Letter Does Not Blush.

Those Who Do Not Know History Will Forever Remain Children

The Popular Breeze - Aura Popularis

Reason Is The Mistress And Queen Of All Things. [lat., Domina Omnium Et Regina Ratio.]

Nothing Troubles You For Which You Do Not Yearn.

Six Mistakes Mankind Keeps Making Century After Century: Believing That Personal Gain Is Made By Crushing Others; Worrying About Things That Cannot Be Changed Or Corrected; Insisting That A Thing Is Impossible Because We Cannot Accomplish It; Refusing To Set Aside Trivial Preferences; Neglecting Development And Refinement Of The Mind; Attempting To Compel Others To Believe And Live As We Do.

To The Sick, While There Is Life There Is Hope. [lat., Aegroto Dum Anima Est, Spes Est.]

A Nation Can Survive Its Fools, Even The Ambitious. But It Cannot Survive Treason From Within....for The Traitor Appears Not To Be A Traitor...he Rots The Soul Of A Nation...he Infects The Body Politic So That It Can No Longer Resist.

Ignorance Of Impending Evil Is Far Better Than A Knowledge Of Its Approach.

Take From A Man His Reputation For Probity, And The More Shrewd And Clever He Is, The More Hated And Mistrusted He Becomes.

The Thirst Of Desire Is Never Filled, Nor Fully Satisfied.

I Depart From Life As From An Inn, And Not As From My Home. [lat., Ex Vita Discedo, Tanquam Ex Hospitio, Non Tanquam Ex Domo.]

Prosperity Demands Of Us More Prudence And Moderation Than Adversity.

There Is No Life Without Friendship

To Be Content With What We Possess Is The Greatest And Most Secure Of Riches.

The Beginnings Of All Things Are Small.

Peace Is So Beneficial That The Word Itself Is Pleasant To Hear.

In Everything Satiety Closely Follows The Greatest Pleasures.

Pleasures Of Life

My Precept To All Who Build, Is, That The Owner Should Be An Ornament To The House, And Not The House To The Owner.

Friendship Is Not To Be Sought For Its Wages, But Because Its Revenue Consists Entirely In The Love Which It Implies.

Any Man May Make A Mistake; None But A Fool Will Stick To It. Second Thoughts Are Best As The Proverb Says. [lat., Cujusvis Hominis Est Errare; Nullius, Nisi Insipientis, In Errore Perseverae. Posteriores Enim Cogitationes (ut Aiunt) Sapientiores Solent Esse.]

Men Decide Far More Problems By Hate, Love, Lust, Rage, Sorrow, Joy, Hope, Fear, Illusion Or Some Other Inward Emotion, Than By Reality, Authority, Any Legal Standard, Judicial Precedent, Or Statute.

When They Remain Silent, They Cry Out.

Were Floods Of Tears To Be Unloosed In Tribute To My Grief, The Doves Of Noah Ne'er Had Roost Nor Found An Olive-leaf.

In All Great Arts, As In Trees, It Is The Height That Charms Us; We Care Nothing For The Roots Or Trunks, Yet It Could Not Be Without The Aid Of These.

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

No Deceit Is So Veiled As That Which Lies Concealed Behind The Semblance Of Courtesy.

A Perverse Temper And Fretful Disposition Will Make Any State Of Life Whatsoever Unhappy.

I Am Much Beholden To Old Age, Which Has Increased My Eagerness For Conversation In Proportion As It Has Lessened My Appetites Of Hunger And Thirst.

Hunger And Thirst

To Disregard What The World Thinks Of Us Is Not Only Arrogant But Utterly Shameless. [lat., Negligere Quid De Se Quisque Sentiat, Non Solum Arrogantis Est, Sed Etiam Omnino Dissoluti.]

You May Never Be Less Alone Than When You Are Alone.

Excessive Liberty Leads Both Nations And Individuals Into Excessive Slavery. [lat., Nimia Libertas Et Populis Et Privatis In Nimiam Servitutem Cadit.]

The Following Passage Is One Of Those Cited By Copernicus Himself In His Preface To De Revolutionibus: "the Syracusan Hicetas, As Theophrastus Asserts, Holds The View That The Heaven, Sun, Moon, Stars, And In Short All Of The Things On High Are Stationary, And That Nothing In The World Is In Motion Except The Earth, Which By Revolving And Twisting Round Its Axis With Extreme Velocity Produces All The Same Results As Would Be Produced If The Earth Were Stationary And The Heaven In Motion. . . ."

An Innocent Man, If Accused, Can Be Acquitted; A Guilty Man, Unless Accused, Cannot Be Condemned. It Is, However, More Advantageous To Absolve An Innocent Than Not To Prosecute A Guilty Man.

Strain Every Nerve To Gain Your Point.

What Is There That Is Illustrious That Is Not Also Attended By Labor?

The Best Armour Of Old Age Is A Well Spent Life Preceding It; A Life Employed In The Pursuit Of Useful Knowledge, In Honourable Actions And The Practice Of Virtue; In Which He Who Labours To Improve Himself From His Youth, Will In Age Reap The Happiest Fruits Of Them; Not Only Because These Never Leave A Man, Not Even In The Extremest Old Age; But Because A Conscience Bearing Witness That Our Life Was Well-spent, Together With The Remembrance Of Past Good Actions, Yields An Unspeakable Comfort To The Soul

It Is Our Duty, My Young Friends, To Resist Old Age.

Time Obliterates The Fictions Of Opinion And Confirms The Decisions Of Nature.

I Prefer The Wisdom Of The Uneducated To The Folly Of The Loquacious.

Men Ought To Be Most Annoyed By The Sufferings Which Come From Their Own Faults.

The Purpose Of Education Is To Free The Student From The Tyranny Of The Present.

Purpose Of Education

There Is No One So Old As To Not Think They May Live A Day Longer.

I Am Pleased To Be Praised By A Man So Praised As You, Father. [words Used By Hector.] [lat., Laetus Sum Laudari Me Abs Te, Pater, Laudato Viro.]

I Prefer Tongue-tied Knowledge To Ignorant Loquacity.

Knowing Who You Are

Economy Is A Great Revenue. [lat., Magnum Vectigal Est Parsimonia.]

Friends, Though Absent, Are Still Present.

Rather Leave The Crime Of The Guilty Unpunished Than Condemn The Innocent.

Tall Oaks Grow From Little Acorns.testing. This Is The Text Of An Item. Testing. Origin. Testing. Quoted. Testing. Source. The Diligent Farmer Plants Trees, Of Which He Himself Will Never See The Fruit.

Let Arms Give Place To The Robe, And The Laurel Of The Warriors Yield To The Tongue Of The Orator.

Where Is There Dignity Unless There Is Honesty?

Fortune, Not Wisdom, Rules Lives.

Nature Abhors Annihilation.

He Who Has A Garden And A Library Wants For Nothing.

Wars, Therefore, Are To Be Undertaken For This End, That We May Live In Peace, Without Being Injured; But When We Obtain The Victory, We Must Preserve Those Enemies Who Behaved Without Cruelty Or Inhumanity During The War.

Wisdom Is Not Only To Be Acquired, But Enjoyed.

Prudence Must Not Be Expected From A Man Who Is Never Sober. [lat., Non Est Ab Homine Nunquam Sobrio Postulanda Prudentia.]

No One Was Ever Great Without Some Portion Of Divine Inspiration.

Divine Inspiration

Nothing Stands Out So Conspicuously, Or Remains So Firmly Fixed In The Memory, As Something Which You Have Blundered.

Never Was A Government That Was Not Composed Of Liars, Malefactors And Thieves.

No One Sees What Is Before His Feet: They Scan The Tracks Of Heaven.

The Nobler A Man, The Harder It Is For Him To Suspect Inferiority In Others.

The Study And Knowledge Of The Universe Would Somehow Be Lame And Defective Were No Practical Results To Follow.

As You Have Sown So Shall You Reap.

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

In This Statement, My Scipio, I Build On Your Own Admirable Definition, That There Can Be No Community, Properly So Called, Unless It Be Regulated By A Combination Of Rights. And By This Definition It Appears That A Multitude Of Men May Be Just As Tyrannical As A Single Despot And Indeed This Is The Most Odious Of All Tyrannies, Since No Monster Can Be More Barbarous Than The Mob, Which Assumes The Name And Mask Of The People.

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

Man Must Suffer To Be Wise.

True Law Is Right Reason In Agreement With Nature;...it Summons To Duty By Its Commands, And Averts From Wrongdoing By Its Prohibitions... It Is A Sin To Try To Alter This Law, Nor Is It Allowable To Attempt To Repeal Any Part Of It, And It Is Impossible To Abolish It Entirely.

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

But As To The Affection Which Anyone May Have For Us, It Is The First Demand Of Duty That We Do Most For Him Who Loves Us Most; But We Should Measure Affection, Not Like Youngsters, By The Ardour Of Its Passion, But Rather By Its Strength And Constancy.

This, Therefore, Is A Law Not Found In Books, But Written On The Fleshly Tablets Of The Heart, Which We Have Not Learned From Man, Received Or Read, But Which We Have Caught Up From Nature Herself, Sucked In And Imbibed; The Knowledge Of Which We Were Not Taught, But For Which We Were Made; We Received It Not By Education, But By Intuition.

The Greater The Difficulty, The Greater The Glory.

There Exists A Law, Not Written Down Anywhere But Inborn In Our Hearts; A Law Which Comes To Us Not By Training Or Custom Or Reading But By Derivation And Absorption And Adoption From Nature Itself; A Law Which Has Come To Us Not From Theory But From Practice, Not By Instruction But By Natural Intuition. I Refer To The Law Which Lays It Down That, If Our Lives Are Endangered By Plots Or Violence Or Armed Robbers Or Enemies, Any And Every Method Of Protecting Ourselves Is Morally Right.

Since An Intelligence Common To Us All Makes Things Known To Us And Formulates Them In Our Minds, Honorable Actions Are Ascribed By Us To Virtue, And Dishonorable Actions To Vice; And Only A Madman Would Conclude That These Judgments Are Matters Of Opinion, And Not Fixed By Nature.

Civilized People Are Taught By Logic, Barbarians, By Necessity, Communities By Tradition; And The Lesson Inculcated Even In Wild Beasts By Nature Itself. They Learn That They Have To Defend Their Own Bodies And Persons Lives From Violence Of Any And Every Kind By All Means Within Their Power.

A Good Orator Is Pointed And Impassioned.

Self Improvement

Public Speaking

Old Age By Nature Is Rather Talkative.

Hatred Is Inveterate Anger.

Everyone Has The Obligation To Ponder Well His Own Specific Traits Of Character. He Must Also Regulate Them Adequately And Not Wonder Whether Someone Else's Traits Might Suit Him Better. The More Definitely His Own A Man's Character Is, The Better It Fits Him.

In Anger Nothing Right Nor Judicious Can Be Done.

Let Flattery, The Handmaid Of The Vices, Be Far Removed (from Friendship). [lat., Assentatio, Vitiorum Adjutrix, Procul Amoveatur.]

He Who Has Once Deviated From The Truth, Usually Commits Perjury With As Little Scruple As He Would Tell A Lie.

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.

The Budget Should Be Balanced, The Treasury Refilled, Public Debt Reduced, The Arrogance Of Officialdom Tempered And Controlled, And The Assistance To Foreign Lands Curtailed, Lest Rome Become Bankrupt.

The Aim Of Forensic Oratory Is To Teach, To Delight, To Move.

It Is A Man's Own Dishonesty, His Crimes, His Wickedness, And Boldness, That Takes Away From Him Soundness Of Mind; These Are The Furies, These The Flames And Firebrands, Of The Wicked.

The Divinity Who Rules Within Us, Forbids Us To Leave This World Without His Command.

The Last Day Does Not Bring Extinction To Us, But Change Of Place. [lat., Supremus Ille Dies Non Nostri Extinctionem Sed Commutationem Affert Loci.]

...the Counsels Of The Divine Mind Had Some Glimpse Of Truth When They Said That Men Are Born In Order To Suffer The Penalty For Sins Committed In A Former Life.

Long Life Is Denied Us; Therefore Let Us Do Something To Show That We Have Lived.

The Life Of The Dead Consists In The Recollection Cherished Of Them By The Living.

To Know The Laws Is Not To Memorize Their Letter But To Grasp Their Full Force And Meaning.

To Freemen, Threats Are Impotent.

All Literature, All Philosophical Treatises, All The Voices Of Antiquity Are Full Of Examples For Imitation, Which Would All Lie Unseen In Darkness Without The Light Of Literature.

The Magistrates Are The Ministers For The Laws, The Judges Their Interpreters, The Rest Of Us Are Servants Of The Law, That We All May Be Free.

Hmm... That's Like Telling You About The Cold Of Space, Or Terror Of Midnight. Sithis Is All Those Things. He Is... The Void.

Can You Also, Lucullus, Affirm That There Is Any Power United With Wisdom And Prudence Which Has Made, Or, To Use Your Own Expression, Manufactured Man? What Sort Of A Manufacture Is That? Where Is It Exercised? When? Why? How?

Nothing Is More Unreliable Than The Populace, Nothing More Obscure Than Human Intentions, Nothing More Deceptive Than The Whole Electoral System.

. . . For Until That God Who Rules All The Region Of The Sky . . . Has Freed You From The Fetters Of Your Body, You Cannot Gain Admission Here. Men Were Created With The Understanding That They Were To Look After That Sphere Called Earth, Which You See In The Middle Of The Temple. Minds Have Been Given To Them Out Of The Eternal Fires You Call Fixed Stars And Planets, Those Spherical Solids Which, Quickened With Divine Minds, Journey Through Their Circuits And Orbits With Amazing Speed.

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

Saving The Virtues Includes All Other Advantages

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

If You Possess A Library And A Garden, You Have Everything You Need. (translation From The French) Si Vous Possedez Une Bibliotheque Et Un Jardin, Vous Avez Tout Ce Qu'il Vous Faut.

Old Age Is By Nature Rather Talkative.

Men Resemble The Gods In Nothing So Much As In Doing Good To Their Fellow Creatures.

There Is Nothing So Charming As The Knowledge Of Literature; Of That Branch Of Literature, I Mean, Which Enables Us To Discover The Infinity Of Things, The Immensity Of Nature, The Heavens, The Earth, And The Seas; This Is That Branch Which Has Taught Us Religion, Moderation, Magnanimity, And That Has Rescued The Soul From Obscurity; To Make Her See All Things Above And Below, First And Last, And Between Both; It Is This That Furnishes Us Wherewith To Live Well And Happily, And Guides Us To Pass Our Lives Without Displeasure And Without Offence.

Nature Ordains That A Man Should Wish The Good Of Every Man, Whoever He May Be, For This Very Reason That He Is A Man.

Physicians, When The Cause Of Disease Is Discovered, Consider That The Cure Is Discovered.

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

Law Stands Mute In The Midst Of Arms.

It Might Be Pardonable To Refuse To Defend Some Men, But To Defend Them Negligently Is Nothing Short Of Criminal.

Before Beginning, Prepare Carefully.

For If That Last Day Does Not Occasion An Entire Extinction, But A Change Of Abode Only, What Can Be More Desirable? And If It, On The Other Hand, Destroys And Absolutely Puts An End To Us, What Can Be Preferable To Having A Deep Sleep Fall On Us In The Midst Of The Fatigues Of Life And, Being Thus Overtaken, To Sleep To Eternity?

A War Is Never Undertaken By The Ideal State, Except In Defense Of Its Honor Or Its Safety.

Even The Ablest Pilots Are Willing To Receive Advice From Passengers In Tempestuous Weather.

To Give Counsel, As Well As To Take It, Is A Feature Of True Friendship.

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

A Thankful Heart Is The Greatest Virtue.

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

Silence Is One Of The Great Arts Of Conversation.

Certain Signs Are The Forerunners Of Certain Events.

He Does Not Seem To Me To Be A Free Man Who Does Not Sometimes Do Nothing.

Our Thoughts Are Free.

Life Is Nothing Without Friendship.

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

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

If Some Lose Their Whole Fortunes, They Will Drag Many More Down With Them . . . Believe Me That The Whole System Of Credit And Finance Which Is Carried On Here At Rome In The Forum, Is Inextricably Bound Up With The Revenues Of The Asiatic Province. If Those Revenues Are Destroyed, Our Whole System Of Credit Will Come Down With A Crash.

The First Bond Of Society Is The Marriage Tie; The Next Our Children; Then The Whole Family Of Our House, And All Things In Common.

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.

Dogs Wait For Us Faithfully.

Fear Is Not A Lasting Teacher Of Duty.

When A Government Becomes Powerful It Is Destructive, Extravagant And Violent; It Is An Usurer Which Takes Bread From Innocent Mouths And Deprives Honorable Men Of Their Substance, For Votes With Which To Perpetuate Itself.

The Foundation Of Justice Is Good Faith.

We All Are Imbued With The Love Of Praise.

In The Conduct Of Almost Every Affair Slowness And Procrastination Are Hateful

Procrastination

Let The Punishment Be Equal With The Offence. [lat., Noxiae Poena Par Esto.]

Kindness Is Produced By Kindness.

No Liberal Man Would Impute A Charge Of Unsteadiness To Another For Having Changed His Opinion.

Hours And Days And Months And Years Go By; The Past Returns No More, And What Is To Be We Cannot Know; But Whatever The Time Gives Us In Which We Live, We Should Therefore Be Content.

Let Each Man Have According To His Deserts.

"i Believe That No Characteristic Is So Distinctively Human As The Sense Of Indebtedness We Feel, Not Necessarily For A Favor Received, But Even For The Slightest Evidence Of Kindness; And There Is Nothing So Boorish, Savage, Inhuman As To Appear To Be Overwhelmed By A Favor, Let Alone Unworthy Of It."

In Men Of The Highest Character And Noblest Genius There Is To Be Found An Insatiable Desire For Honor, Command, Power, And Glory.

If We Lose Affection And Kindliness From Our Life: We Lose All That Gives It Charm.

To Study Philosophy Is Nothing But To Prepare One’s Self To Die.

Nothing Is More Noble, Nothing More Venerable Than Fidelity.

Not Cohabitation But Consensus Constitutes Marriage.

There Is No Opinion So Stupid That It Can't Be Expressed By Some Philosopher.

We Are Born Poets. We Become Orators.

We Are Motivated By A Keen Desire For Praise, And The Better A Man Is The More He Is Inspired By Glory. The Very Philosophers Themselves, Even In Those Books Which They Write In Contempt Of Glory, Inscribe Their Names.

The Man Who Is Always Fortunate Cannot Easily Have A Great Reverence For Virtue.

It Was Fear That Was Then Making You A Good Citizen, Which Is Never A Lasting Teacher Of Duty.

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