It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.
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There is no opinion so absurd that some philosopher will not express it.Marcus Tullius Cicero
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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Fewer possess virtue, than those who wish us to believe that they possess it.
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Friends, though absent, are still present.
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It was ordained at the beginning of the world that certain signs should prefigure certain events.
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I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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