Cassius Dio Quotes
From Antonius he first received some brief appointments as procurator, than was made perfect, and discharged the duties of this office in a most satisfactory and just manner, in so far as he was free to follow his own judgment.

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The love received is the love that is saved.
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I am never so happy as when I am really engaged in good earnest, & it makes me must wonderfully cheerful & merry at other times, which is curious & very satisfactory.
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And certainly once a man begins to neglect his domestic duties he becomes painfully effeminate, does he not? And I don't like that. It makes men so very attractive.
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Frank Harris has been received in all the great houses - once.
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Cry down materialism all you will, surely one of the thoroughly satisfactory sensations of this world is to feel financially independent.
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At the highest level of awareness, the greatest gift given and received when you give someone flowers, is the joy of living a life based on love.
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Ants are good citizens; they place group interest first. But they carry it so far, they have few or no political rights. An ant doesn't have the vote, apparently; he just has his duties.
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The night before, go over your schedule and see what you're going to do and what the purpose of what you're doing is. I advocate having a two-column schedule. On the left, put down all your appointments and phone calls. On the right, put down what the purpose is.
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What are the aims which are at the same time duties? They are perfecting of ourselves, the happiness of others.
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Education is not received. It is achieved.
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When a doubt is once received, men labour rather how to keep it a doubt still, than how to solve it; and accordingly bend their wits.
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The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.
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The higher type of man clings to virtue, the lower type of man clings to material comfort. The higher type of man cherishes justice, the lower type of man cherishes the hope of favors to be received.
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When there are duties to perform [true] servants and sons serve their labors.
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Out of the performance of duties flow rights, and those that knew and performed their duties came naturally by their rights.
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Performance of one's duties should be independent of public opinion.
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In the long run my observations have convinced me that some men, reasoning preposterously, first establish some conclusion in their minds which, either because of its being their own or because of their having received it from some person who has their entire confidence, impresses them so deeply that one finds it impossible ever to get it out of their heads.
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If there is some good in me, it is because I was born in the subtle atmosphere of your country of Arezzo. Along with the milk of my nurse I received the knack of handling chisel and hammer, with which I make my figures.
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I still enjoy watching films more than making them.
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Of course, the entire effort is to put myself Outside the ordinary range Of what are called statistics. A hundred are killed In the outer suburbs. Well, well, I carry on.
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Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.
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From Antonius he first received some brief appointments as procurator, than was made perfect, and discharged the duties of this office in a most satisfactory and just manner, in so far as he was free to follow his own judgment.