A man of courage is also full of faith.
Cicero
The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret that man is black at heart mark and avoid him.
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Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form reveals is not yourself the spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which and be pointed out by your finger.
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The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.
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Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
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I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.
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So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.
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Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.
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Can you also, Lucullus, affirm that there is any power united with wisdom and prudence which has made, or, to use your own expression, manufactured man? What sort of a manufacture is that? Where is it exercised? When? Why? How?
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Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?
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A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him.
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As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.
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Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.
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Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.
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As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.
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