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Lucius Cassius ille quem populus Romanus verissimum et sapientissimum iudicem putabat identidem in causis quaerere solebat 'cui bono' fuisset. The famous Lucius Cassius, whom the Roman people used to regard as a very honest and wise judge, was in the habit of asking, time and again, 'To whose benefit?
Apollo, sacred guard of earth's true core, Whence first came frenzied, wild prophetic word.
The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret -- that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him.
Politicians are not born; they are excreted.
The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.
Dum Spiro, spero- As long as I breathe, I hope.
A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.
Freedom is participation in power.
Non nobis solum nati sumus. (Not for ourselves alone are we born.)
Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?
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