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A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.  
A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, wh...  
All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of the...  
An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailmen...  
Character is simply habit long continued.  
Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.  
I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I no...   Friendship
I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in th...  
If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.  
In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of t...  
It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory bel...  
It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk e...  
It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is ...  
Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly...  
Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes u...  
Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies exce...  
Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create ...  
Memory: what wonders it performs in preserving and storing up things g...  
Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making t...  
Neither blame or praise yourself.  
No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks ...  
Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more eas...  
Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.   Art
Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which c...  
Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh fr...  
Someone praising a man for his foolhardy bravery, Cato, the elder, sai...  
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.  
The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of e...  
The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads am...  
The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.  
The wildest colts make the best horses.  
Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.  
To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is...  
What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.  
When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects ...  
When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun ...