Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.
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Other relaxations are peculiar to certain times, places and stages of life, but the study of letters is the nourishment of our youth, and the joy of our old age. They throw an additional splendor on prosperity, and are the resource and consolation of adversity they delight at home, and are no embarrassment abroad in short, they are company to us at night, our fellow travelers on a journey, and attendants in our rural recesses.Marcus Tullius Cicero
These studies are a spur to the young, a delight to the old an ornament in prosperity, a consoling refuge in adversity they are pleasure for us at home, and no burden abroad they stay up with us at night, they accompany us when we travel, they are with us in our country visits.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbial disgrace.
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Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
The minds of men do in the weather share, dark or serene as it's foul or fair
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Give me a young man in whom there is something of the old, and an old man with something of the young guided so, a man may grow old in body, but never in mind.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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