Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.
Cicero
An unjust peace is better than a just war.
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In time of war the laws are silent.
thetimes time war
Laws are silent in time of war.
The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.
Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just.
revenge war
A war is never undertaken by the ideal State, except in defense of its honor or its safety.
honor war
In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.
truth
Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.
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Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.
mind truth
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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pain power
In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.
rules majority power
What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.
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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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