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#1

“Dum Spiro, spero”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: candor, honesty, truth-telling

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#3

“Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century:
Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others;
Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected;
Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it;
Refusing to set aside trivial preferences;
Neglecting development and refinement of the mind;
Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

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#4

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter

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#5

“While there's life, there's hope.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: hope, life

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#6

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep

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#7

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

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#8

“In times of war, the law falls silent.

Silent enim leges inter arma”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: freedom, human-rights, law, war

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#9

“Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.”
― Cicero

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#10

“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: gratitude

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#11

“Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labours of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: history, latin

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#12

“To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: history

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#13

“The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: fame, immortality, inspirational

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#14

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
― Cicero

tags: books

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#15

“For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: books

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#16

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#17

“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.”
― William W. Purkey

tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing

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#18

“Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.”
― Plato

tags: discipline, education, mentoring, philosophy

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#19

“Love is a serious mental disease.”
― Plato, Phaedrus

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#20

“One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.”
― Plato

tags: philosophy, politics

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#21

“Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil.”
― Plato

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#22

“If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.”
― Plato, The Republic

tags: abilities, empowerment, equality, gender, instruction, jobs, men, skills, women, work

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#23

“The measure of a man is what he does with power.”
― Plato

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#24

“The madness of love is the greatest of heaven's blessings.”
― Plato, Phaedrus

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#25

“Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge. ”
― Plato

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#26

“Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.”
― Plato

tags: inspirational

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#27

“There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.”
― Plato

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#28

“When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.”
― Plato

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#29

“Courage is knowing what not to fear.”
― Plato

tags: courage, fear

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#30

“You should not honor men more than truth.”
― Plato

tags: honesty, honor, secrecy, truth

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