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“The life of the dead is placed on the memories of the living. The love you gave in life keeps people alive beyond their time. Anyone who was given love will always live on in another's heart.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Tomorrow, you promise yourself, things will be different, yet, tomorrow is too often a repetition of today. And you disappoint yourself again and again.”
― James T. McCay

“The secret to getting away with lying, is believing with all your heart. That goes for lying to yourself even more so than lying to another”
― Elizabeth Bear

“The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.”
― Tacitus, The Annals of Imperial Rome

“Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure”
― Tacitus

“If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.”
― Tacitus

“Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad, but sober; not to make us sorry, but wise.”
― H.G. Wells