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The searching-out and thorough investigation of truth ought to be the primary study of man.

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It is easy to distinguish between the joking that reflects good breeding and that which is coarse-the one, if aired at an apposite moment of mental relaxation, is becoming in the most serious of men, whereas the other is unworthy of any free person, if the content is indecent or the expression obscene.

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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

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He has no worse enemy than himself.

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Rashness attends youth, as prudence does old age.

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Enmity is anger watching the opportunity for revenge.

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Pardon is granted to necessity.

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Philosophy is true mother of the arts [of science].

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An old man with something of the youth in him, may feel young in mind and heart only.

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Socrates was the first to call philosophy down from the heavens and to place it in cities, and even to introduce it into homes and compel it to inquire about life and standards and goods and evils.

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There is nothing god cannot do.

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What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth? [Lat., Quod enim munus reiplicae afferre majus, meliusve possumus, quam si docemus atque erudimus juventutem?]

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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.

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Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

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For surely to be wise is the most desirable thing in all the world.

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Virtue is its own reward.

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I know not any season of life that is past more agreeably than virtuous old age.

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The aim of forensic oratory is to teach, to delight, to move.

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Nature has lent us life at interest, like money, and has fixed no day for its payment.

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The higher our position the more modestly we should behave.

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