They who say that we should love our fellow-citizens but not foreigners, destroy the universal brotherhood of mankind, with which benevolence and justice would perish forever


Marcus Tullius Cicero

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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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