The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

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The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.

The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.

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...

The foundation of justice is good faith.

The foundation of justice is good faith.

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...

While there's life, there's hope.

While there's life, there's hope.

Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.

Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a...

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a...

The first law for the historian is that he shall never dare utter an untruth....

The first law for the historian is that he shall never dare utter an untruth....

Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift?

Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift?

Ability without honor is useless.

Ability without honor is useless.

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.

Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.

But the effort, the effort! And as the marrow is eaten out of a man's...

But the effort, the effort! And as the marrow is eaten out of a man's...

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

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...

He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes...

He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes...

Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.

Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.

Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most...

Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most...

There are two kinds of fidelity - that of dogs and that of cats; and...

There are two kinds of fidelity - that of dogs and that of cats; and...

It's easier to be faithful to a restaurant than it is to a woman.

It's easier to be faithful to a restaurant than it is to a woman.

Love truth, and pardon error.

Love truth, and pardon error.