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A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.

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Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.

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We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.

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We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.

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When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.

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Every guilty person is his own hangman.

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For greed all nature is too little.

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You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.

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A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor.

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A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.

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A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

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There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.

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There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

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There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.

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Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

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That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.

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The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.

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The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

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The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

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I don't consider myself bald, I'm just taller than my hair.

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I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.

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Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.

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Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.

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One crime has to be concealed by another.

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That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.

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The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.

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The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.

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Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them.

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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

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