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To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul. - Author object (273)

Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book. - Author object (273)

Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief - Author object (273)

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. - Author object (273)

Nescire autem quid antequam natus sis acciderit, id est semper esse puerum. (To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.) - Author object (273)

The life of the dead is set in the memory of the living. - Author object (273)

The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal. - Author object (273)

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn. - Author object (273)

Politicians are not born; they are excreted. - Author object (273)

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. - Author object (273)

What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious. - Author object (273)

Life is nothing without friendship. - Author object (273)

The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends. - Author object (273)

It is a great thing to know your vices. - Author object (273)

While there's life, there's hope. - Author object (273)

We must not say every mistake is a foolish one. - Author object (273)

To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die. - Author object (273)

If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it. - Author object (273)

Non nobis solum nati sumus. (Not for ourselves alone are we born.) - Author object (273)

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others. - Author object (273)