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

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.

Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason

He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason

Thrift is of great revenue.

Thrift is of great revenue.

No sane man will dance.

No sane man will dance.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Ability without honor is useless.

Ability without honor is useless.

There is no sanctuary so holy that money cannot profane it, no fortress so strong...

There is no sanctuary so holy that money cannot profane it, no fortress so strong...

Law is intelligence, whose natural function it is to command right conduct and forbid wrongdoing.

Law is intelligence, whose natural function it is to command right conduct and forbid wrongdoing.

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

Justice is the set and constant purpose which gives every man his due.

Justice is the set and constant purpose which gives every man his due.

What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us.

What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us.

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase...

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase...

Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so.

Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so.

Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.

Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.

It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently...

It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently...

Old age, especially an honoured old age, has so great authority, that this is of...

Old age, especially an honoured old age, has so great authority, that this is of...

Superstition is a senseless fear of God

Superstition is a senseless fear of God

Fear constipates Faith.

Fear constipates Faith.

Worry is spiritual short sight. Its cure is intelligent faith.

Worry is spiritual short sight. Its cure is intelligent faith.

Those whom the Gods would destroy, they first call promising.

Those whom the Gods would destroy, they first call promising.