When a government becomes powerful it is destructive, extravagant and violent; it is an usurer which takes bread from innocent mouths and deprives honorable men of their substance, for votes with which to perpetuate itself
Marcus Tullius Cicero
... For until that God who rules all the region of the sky... Has freed you from the fetters of your body, you cannot gain admission here. Men were created with the understanding that they were to look after that sphere called Earth, which you see in the middle of the temple. Minds have been given to them out of the eternal fires you call fixed stars and planets, those spherical solids which, quickened with divine minds, journey through their circuits and orbits with amazing speed..
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Men in no way approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to men.
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If I err in my belief that the souls of men are immortal, I err gladly, and do not wish to lose so delightful an error
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Crimes are not to be measured by the issue of events, but by the bad intentions of men
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Men do not realize how great a revenue economy is
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A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague.
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In nothing do men approach so nearly to the Gods, as in giving health to men.
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Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.
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Wise men are instructed by reason; men of less understanding, by experience; the most ignorant, by necessity; the beasts, by nature.
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There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.
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The celestial order and the beauty of the universe compel me to admit that there is some excellent and eternal Being, who deserves the respect and homage of men
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If a man aspires to the highest place, it is no dishonor to him to halt at the second, or even at the third.
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Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.
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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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