Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

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When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second...

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second...

To live is to think.

To live is to think.

When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.

When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.

The more laws, the less justice.

The more laws, the less justice.

For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we...

For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we...

A home without books is a body without soul.

A home without books is a body without soul.

Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift?

Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift?

I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old...

I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old...

When a government becomes powerful it is destructive, extravagant and violent; it is an usurer...

When a government becomes powerful it is destructive, extravagant and violent; it is an usurer...

Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for...

Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for...

The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.

The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.

All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe,...

All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe,...

The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without...

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without...

For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others.

For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others.

Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.

Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.

Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.

Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.

Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something...

Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something...

Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those...

Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those...

The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.

The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.