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" Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator. "
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Best
Brevity
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" Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty. "
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" Silence is one of the great arts of conversation. "
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" Justice is the set and constant purpose which gives every man his due. "
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" The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless. "
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" The safety of the people shall be the highest law. "
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Highest
" The false is nothing but an imitation of the true. "
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" The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil. "
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" We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names. "
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Better
Glory
" No obligation to do the impossible is binding. "
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Obligation
Impossible
" I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors. "
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People
Man
" Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either. "
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Silence
Either
" As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind. "
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" Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable. "
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" Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive. "
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Empire
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Without
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People
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