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“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
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“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
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“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.”
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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.”
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“To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?”
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“In times of war, the law falls silent.
Silent enim leges inter arma”
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Silent enim leges inter arma”
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“Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.”
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“If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.”
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“Non nobis solum nati sumus.
(Not for ourselves alone are we born.)”
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(Not for ourselves alone are we born.)”
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“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.”
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“Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief”
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“For there is but one essential justice which cements society, and one law which establishes this justice. This law is right reason, which is the true rule of all commandments and prohibitions. Whoever neglects this law, whether written or unwritten, is necessarily unjust and wicked.”
― Yasalar Üzerine
― Yasalar Üzerine
“Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labours of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.”
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“The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.”
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“Dum Spiro, spero”
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“While there's life, there's hope.”
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“For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.”
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“The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.”
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“The life of the dead is set in the memory of the living.”
― Philippics
― Philippics
“Politicians are not born; they are excreted.”
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“To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die.”
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“The face is a picture of the mind with the eyes as its interpreter.”
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“The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.”
― De Senectute, De Amicitia
― De Senectute, De Amicitia
“The life of the dead is placed on the memories of the living. The love you gave in life keeps people alive beyond their time. Anyone who was given love will always live on in another's heart.”
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“I criticize by creation, not by finding fault.”
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“It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.”
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“What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.”
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“We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.”
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“Life is nothing without friendship.”
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“It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.”
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“It is a great thing to know your vices.”
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