Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
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Education   
Ability   
Wisdom   
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Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.
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Wisdom   
Forgiveness   
War   
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Since an intelligence common to us all makes things known to us and formulates them in our minds, honorable actions are ascribed by us to virtue, and dishonorable actions to vice; and only a madman would conclude that these judgments are matters of opinion, and not fixed by nature.
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Wisdom   
Vices   
Virtue   
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The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall.
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Arrogance   
Government   
Power   
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Force overcome by force. (Vi Victa Vis)
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War   
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Laws are silent in time of war.
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Wisdom   
War   
Laws   
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This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.
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Life   
Truth   
Spiritual   
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Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.
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Wisdom   
Health   
Mind   
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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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Friendship   
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He removes the greatest ornament of friendship, who takes away from it respect.
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Friendship   
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True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.
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Deception   
Struggle   
Victory   
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The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.
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Wisdom   
Experience   
Reason   
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The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.
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Wisdom   
Difficulty   
Perseverance   
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In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.
Subject:
Character   
Deception   
Ethics   
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Let your desires be ruled by reason. (Appetitus Rationi Pareat)
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Wisdom   
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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.
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Wisdom   
Truth   
Virtue   
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Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.
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Speech   
Admire   
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To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.
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Wisdom   
Ignorance   
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What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?
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Employment   
Teaching   
Nation   
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Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.
Subject:
Wisdom   
Politicians   
Speech   
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