"He who has once deviated from the..." - Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero
He who has once deviated from the truth, usually commits perjury with as little scruple as he would tell a lie.
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“To be ignorant of the past is to be forever a child.”
“Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.”
“While all other things are uncertain, evanescent, and ephemeral, virtue alone is fixed with deep roots; it can neither be overthrown by any violence or moved from its place.”
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“Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows something of what has been passing, when in truth he knows nothing but what has passed under his own eyes.”
“We swim, day by day, on a river of delusions, and are effectually amused with houses and towns in the air, of which the men aboutus are dupes. But life is a sincerity.”
“Its like a finger pointing away to the moon. Dont concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory.”
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“Academic training in beauty is a sham. We have been so deceived, but so well deceived that we can scarcely get back even a shadow of the truth.”
“Truth is such a precious article - let us all economize in its use.”
“Baldwin often times stumbles over the truth, but he always picks himself up and hurries on as if nothing had happened.”