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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.

-Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Marcus Tullius Cicero

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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.

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Men Of Different Tastes Have Different Pursuits.

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Let A Man Practice The Profession Which He Best Knows.

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

It Is Difficult To Set Bounds To The Price Unless You First Set Bounds To The Wish.

So Near Is Falsehood To Truth That A Wise Man Would Do Well Not To Trust Himself On The Narrow Edge.

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

All Action Is Of The Mind And The Mirror Of The Mind Is The Face, Its Index The Eyes.

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

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Dogs Wait For Us Faithfully.

No Obligation To Do The Impossible Is Binding.

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Nobody Can Give You Wiser Advice Than Yourself; You Will Never Err If You Listen To Your Own Suggestions.

There Is No One Who Can Give You Wiser Advice Than You Can Give Yourself: You Will Never Make A Slip, If You Listen To Your Own Heart.

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It Shows A Brave And Resolute Spirit Not To Be Agitated In Exciting Circumstances.

He Has No Worse Enemy Than Himself.

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

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

Prudence Is The Knowledge Of Things To Be Sought, And Those To Be Shunned.

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

Honourable Mention Encourages Science, And Merit Is Fostered By Praise.

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

Men Do Not Realize How Great An Income Thrift Is.

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There Is Wickedness In The Intention Of Wickedness, Even Though It Be Not Perpetrated In The Act.

I Criticize By Creation - Not By Finding Fault.

Work Makes A Callus Against Grief.

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.

Our Thoughts Are Free.

Virtue Is Increased By The Smile Of Approval; And The Love Of Renown Is The Greatest Incentive To Honourable Acts.

Our Generosity Never Should Exceed Our Abilities.

They Who Dare To Ask Anything Of A Friend, By Their Very Request Seem To Imply That They Would Do Anything For The Sake Of That Friend.

Our Character Is Not So Much The Product Of Race And Heredity As Of Those Circumstances By Which Nature Forms Our Habits, By Which We Are Nurtured And Live.

Probabilities Direct The Conduct Of The Wise Man.

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

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

What The Object Of Senile Avarice May Be I Cannot Conceive. For Can There Be Anything More Absurd Than To Seek More Journey Money, The Less There Remains Of The Journey?

Anger Should Never Appear In Awarding Punishment.

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

There Is Not Only An Art, But An Eloquence In It.

The Rabble Estimate Few Things According To Their Real Value, Most Things According To Their Prejudices.

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Whatever That Be Which Thinks, Understands, Wills, And Acts, It Is Something Celestial And Divine.

The Eyes, Like Sentinels, Hold The Highest Place In The Body. [lat., Oculi, Tanquam, Speculatores, Altissimum Locum Obtinent.]

The False Is Nothing But An Imitation Of The True.

Let Your Desires Be Ruled By Reason.

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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.

Man Is His Own Worst Enemy.

It Is Virtue, Virtue, Which Both Creates And Preserves Friendship. On It Depends Harmony Of Interest, Permanence, Fidelity.

Nature Abhors Annihilation.

Nothing Is More Noble, Nothing More Venerable Than Fidelity.

That Which Is Not Forbidden, Is Not On That Account Permitted.

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