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Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.

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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

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Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

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Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.

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For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.

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For no phase of life, whether public or private, whether in business or in the home, whether one is working on what concerns oneself alone or dealing with another, can be without its moral duty; on the discharge of such duties depends all that is morally right, and on their neglect all that is morally wrong in life.

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For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others.

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For if that last day does not occasion an entire extinction, but a change of abode only, what can be more desirable And if it, on the other hand, destroys and absolutely puts an end to us, what can be preferable to having a deep sleep fall on us in the midst of the fatigues of life and, being thus overtaken, to sleep to eternity

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Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

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Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so.

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Empire and liberty.

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Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness.

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Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

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Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

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Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift?

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As I give thought to the matter, I find four causes for the apparent misery of old age; first, it withdraws us from active accomplishments; second, it renders the body less powerful; third, it deprives us of almost all forms of enjoyment; fourth, it stands not far from death.

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Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

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Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.

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According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.

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Ability without honor is useless.

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A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others.

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A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues.

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A letter does not blush.

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. . . for until that God who rules all the region of the sky. . . has freed you from the fetters of your body, you cannot gain admission here. Men were created with the understanding that they were to look after that sphere called Earth, which you see in the middle of the temple. Minds have been given to them out of the eternal fires you call fixed stars and planets, those spherical solids which, quickened with divine minds, journey through their circuits and orbits with amazing speed....

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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.

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The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.

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I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

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A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him.

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As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

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If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.

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