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The chief recommendation is modesty, then dutiful conduct toward parents, then affection for kindred.
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Nothing is too absurd to be said by some of the philosophers.
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True glory strikes root, and even extends itself all false pretensions fall as do flowers, nor can any feigned thing be lasting.
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Study carefully, the character of the one you recommend, lest their misconduct bring you shame.
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Extreme justice is extreme injustice.
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All things are full of God.
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It is besides necessary that whoever is brave should be a man of great soul.
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Our country is wherever we are well off. [Lat., Patria est, ubicunque est bene.]
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Wisdom often exists under a shabby coat.
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There is no treasure the which may be compared unto a faithful friend Gold some decayeth, and worldly wealth consumeth, and wasteth in the winde But love once planted in a perfect and pure minde indureth weale and woe The frownes of fortune, come they never so unkinde, cannot the same overthrowe.
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The searching-out and thorough investigation of truth ought to be the primary study of man.
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I prefer the wisdom of the uneducated to the folly of the loquacious.
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O tempora! O mores! O what times (are these)! what morals!
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Taxes are the sinews of the state.
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For there is but one essential justice which cements society, and one law which establishes this justice. This law is right reason, which is the true rule of all commandments and prohibitions. Whoever neglects this law, whether written or unwritten, is necessarily unjust and wicked.
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Man's best support is a very dear friend.
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The gardener plants trees, not one berry of which he will ever see: and shall not a public man plant laws, institutions, government, in short, under the same conditions?
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Opinionum enim commenta delet dies naturæ judicia confirmat. Time destroys the groundless conceits of men it confirms decisions founded on reality.
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The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.
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Man is his own worst enemy. [Lat., Nihil inimicius quam sibi ipse.]
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