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For the Christian Fathers he was a model of the good pagan. St. Jerome, ashamed of what he felt was an excessive partiality for a heathen author, would undertake a fast, so that he could study Cicero afterwards.
“A witty saying proves nothing.”
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“A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.”
― Maxims
― Maxims
“The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.”
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“On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.”
― The Complete Essays
― The Complete Essays
“It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it. Life is long enough, and a sufficiently generous amount has been given to us for the highest achievements if it were all well invested. But when it is wasted in heedless luxury and spent on no good activity, we are forced at last by death’s final constraint to realize that it has passed away before we knew it was passing. So it is: we are not given a short life but we make it short, and we are not ill-supplied but wasteful of it… Life is long if you know how to use it.”
― On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It
― On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It
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