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Care must be taken that the punishment does not exceed the offence.

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Let a man practice the profession which he best knows.

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That which is usually called dotage is not the weak point of all old men, but only of such as are distinguished by their levity.

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To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

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It is not only arrogant, but it is profligate, for a man to disregard the world's opinion of himself.

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The first duty of man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth.

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Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor can thoughts be made to shine without the light of language.

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There are two ways to resolve conflicts, through violence or through negotiation. Violence is for wild beasts, negotiation is for human beings.

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O philosophy, life's guide! O searcher-out of virtue and expeller of vices! What could we and every age of men have been without thee? Thou hast produced cities; thou hast called men scattered about into the social enjoyment of life. [Lat., O vitae philosophia dux! O virtutis indagatrix, expultrixque vitiorum! Quid non modo nos, sed omnino vita hominum sine et esse potuisset? Tu urbes peperisti; tu dissipatos homines in societatum vitae convocasti.]

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Memory is the receptacle and sheath of all knowledge

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When they remain silent, they cry out.

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It is a great proof of talents to be able to recall the mind from the senses, and to separate thought from habit.

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There is no fortune so strong that money cannot take it.

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A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

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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.

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This seems to be advanced as the surest basis for our belief in the existence of gods, that there is no race so uncivilized, no one in the world so barbarous that his mind has no inkling of a belief in gods.

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Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.

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The well-known old remark of Cato, who used to wonder how two soothsayers could look one another in the face without laughing.

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Death is dreadful to the man whose all is extinguished with his life; but not to him whose glory never can die.

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Morals today are corrupted by our worship of riches.

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