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To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning.
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To be ignorant of what happened before you were born is to be ever a child. For what is man's lifetime unless the memory of past events is woven with those of earlier times
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Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book
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Thrift is of great revenue.
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Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.
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Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.
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Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just.
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This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.
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There is nothing so ridiculous absurd* but some philosopher has said it.
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There is no place more delightful than home.
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There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.
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The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.
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The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.
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The sinews of war are infinite money.
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The spirit is the true self.
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The spirit is the true self. The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure.
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The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.
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The safety of the people shall be the highest law.
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The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.
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The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.
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The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.
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The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.
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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.
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The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.
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The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.
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The good of the people is the greatest law.
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The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
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The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.
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The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.
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The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.
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