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The final hour when we cease to exist does not itself bring death; it merely of itself completes the death-process. We reach death at that mom...

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Pain, scorned by yonder gout-ridden wretch, endured by yonder dyspeptic in the midst of his dainties, borne bravely by the girl in travail. Sl...

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Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so I shall choose my death w...

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You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

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Without an adversary prowess shrivels. We see how great and efficient it really is only when it shows by endurance what it is capable of.

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While the fates permit, live happily life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned.

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While the fates permit, live happily; life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned.

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Where the speech is corrupted, the mind is also.

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Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.

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Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.

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What does reason demand of a man A very easy thing--to live in accord with his nature.

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What does reason demand of a man? A very easy thing--to live in accord with his nature.

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What difference does it make how much you have What you do not have amounts to much more.

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Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.

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We should conduct ourselves not as if we ought to live for the body, but as if we could not live without it.

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We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

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We most often go astray on a well trodden and much frequented road.

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Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.

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truth never perishes (Veritas numquam perit)

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Toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other.

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To see a man fearless in dangers. untainted with lusts, happy in adversity, composed in a tumult, and laughing at all those things which are generally either coveted or feared, all men must acknowledge that this can be from nothing else but a beam of divinity that influences a mortal body.

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To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.

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To be feared is to fear no one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.

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To be feared is to fear: no one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.

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Time heals what reason cannot.

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This is the reason we cannot complain of lifeit keeps no one against his wll.

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There is no great genius free from some tincture of madness.

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There is a noble manner of being poor and who does not know it will never be rich.

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The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged it's the intention, not the face-value of the gift, that's weighed.

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The path of precept is long, that of example short and effectual.

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