Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.
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Argument & Debate   
Speech   
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Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.
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Age   
Youth   
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A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others.
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Compassion   
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The first duty of a man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth.
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Truth   
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When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
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Argument & Debate   
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What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.
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Wisdom   
Effort   
Action   
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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.
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Truth   
Mankind   
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A happy life consists in tranquillity of mind.
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Happiness   
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A life of peace, purity, and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.
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Life   
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Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
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Wisdom   
Knowledge   
Justice   
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The more laws, the less justice.
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Wisdom   
Justice   
Laws   
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A friend is, as it were, a second self.
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Friendship   
Source: De Amicitia
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The good of the people is the greatest law.
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Laws   
Ethics   
People   
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In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.
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Wisdom   
Government   
Nation   
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Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.
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Habits   
Power   
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Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinion, most praiseworthy: not that the public eye should be entirely avoided, for good actions desire to be placed in the light; but notwithstanding this, the greatest theater for virtue is conscience.
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Wisdom   
Conscience   
Virtue   
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To be content with what one has is the greatest and truest of riches.
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Wisdom   
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The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.
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Wisdom   
Character   
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What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.
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Friendship   
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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.
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Wisdom   
Virtue   
Victory   
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