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When you read a classic you do not see in the book more than...
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New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because...
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If a man has talent and can’t use it, he’s failed. If he uses...
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Fate leads the willing and drags along the unwilling. – Epistulae ad Lucilium
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Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible...
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I would far rather be ignorant than wise in the foreboding of evil.
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When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are...
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Everyone complains of his memory, none of his judgment.
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It is no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase ‘As pretty...
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There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One...