"No phase of life, whether public or private, can be free from duty."
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"Nature abhors annihilation."
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"What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk."
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"Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things, human and divine, conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection."
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"Socrates, indeed, when he was asked of what country he called himself, said, "Of the world"; for he considered himself an inhabitant and a citizen of the whole world."
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"No one dances sober, unless he is insane."
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"It is a crime to put a Roman citizen in chains, it is an enormity to flog one, sheer murder to slay one: what, then, shall I say of crucifixion? It is impossible to find the word for such an abomination."
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"Everything is alive... Everything is interconnected."
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"Every evil in the bud is easily crushed: as it grows older, it becomes stronger."
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"I am of the opinion which you have always held, that "viva voce" voting at elections is the best method. [Lat., Nam ego in ista sum sententia, qua te fuisse semper scio, nihil ut feurit in suffragiis voce melius.]"
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"Softly! Softly! I want none but the judges to hear me. The Jews have already gotten me into a fine mess, as they have many other gentleman. I have no desire to furnish further grist for their mills."
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"Peace is freedom in tranquility."
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"Come now: Do we really think that the gods are everywhere called by the same names by which they are addressed by us? But the gods have as many names as there are languages among humans. For it is not with the gods as with you: you are Velleius wherever you go, but Vulcan is not Vulcan in Italy and in Africa and in Spain."
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"True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long."
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"In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures."
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"In a disturbed mind, as in a body in the same state, health can not exist."
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"I cease not to advocate peace; even though unjust it is better than the most just war."
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"This seems to be advanced as the surest basis for our belief in the existence of gods, that there is no race so uncivilized, no one in the world so barbarous that his mind has no inkling of a belief in gods."
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"Let arms yield to the toga, let the [victor's] laurel yield to the [orator's] tongue."
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"There are two ways to resolve conflicts, through violence or through negotiation. Violence is for wild beasts, negotiation is for human beings."
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