The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
From Marcus Tullius Cicero
Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.
I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.
Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.
All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.
It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.
Sweet is the memory of past troubles.
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