degree of wisdom are equally foolish and vicious, as those who are two inches under water.
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The sovereign good. Dispute about the sovereign good.—Ut sis contentus temetipso et ex te nascentibus bonis.[1] There is a contradiction, for in the end they advise suicide. Oh! What a happy life, from which we are to free ourselves as from the plague!
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Ex senatus-consultis et plebiscitis…
To ask like passages.
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Ex senatus-consultis et plebiscitis scelera exercentur. Sen. 588.[2]
Nihil tam absurde dici potest quod non dicatur ab aliquo philosophorum.[3] Divin.
Quibusdam destinatis sententiis consecrati quæ non probant coguntur defendere.[4] Cic.
Ut omnium rerum sic litterarum quoque intemperantia laboramus.[5] Senec.
Id maxime quemque decet, quod est cujusque suum maxime.[6]
Hos natura modos primum dedit.[7]
Paucis opus est litteris ad bonam mentem.[8]
Si quando turpe non sit, tamen non est non turpe quum id ab multitudine laudetur.[9]
Mihi sic usus est, tibi ut opus est facto, fac.[10] Ter.
- ↑ "That you may be contented with yourself and the good things that spring from you."―Seneca.
- ↑ "Decrees of the senate and of the people are responsible for crimes."
- ↑ "Nothing can be said so absurd that it may not be said by some philosopher."―Cicero.
- ↑ "Those who are given over to certain preconceived ideas are forced to defend what they cannot prove."
- ↑ "In literature as in all things, we labor in excess."
- ↑ "That becomes any one best which is most his own."―Cicero.
- ↑ "Nature first gave those customs."―Virgil.
- ↑ "For the good mind few books are necessary."
- ↑ "If perchance a thing is not base, it does not escape baseness by being praised by the crowd."
- ↑ "That is my custom; you must do as necessity bids."
