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Friendship embraces innumerable ends turn where you will it is ever at your side no barrier shuts it out it is never untimely and never in the way.
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Laws are inoperative in war
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Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.
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There has never been a poet or orator who thought another better than himself.
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To freemen, threats are impotent. [Lat., Nulla enim minantis auctoritas apud liberos est.]
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The men who administer public affairs must first of all see that everyone holds onto what is his, and that private men are never deprived of their goods by public men.
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On the subject of the nature of the gods, the first question is Do the gods exist or do the not? It is difficult you may say to deny that they exist. I would agree if we were arguing the matter in a public assembly, but in a private discussion of this kind, it is perfectly easy to do so.
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Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.
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It was fear that was then making you a good citizen, which is never a lasting teacher of duty.
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The hope of impunity is the greatest inducement to do wrong.
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I follow nature as the surest guide, and resign myself with implicit obedience to her sacred ordinances.
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Superstition is an unreasoning fear of God.
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He who suffers, remembers.
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An acute first-class brain is the finest asset anyone can have- and, if we want to be happy, it is an asset we must exploit to the uttermost.
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Let us drink for the replenishment of our strength, not for our sorrow
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Taxes are the sinews of the state.
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The good of the people is the greatest law.
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Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things, human and divine, conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection.
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Vicious habits are so great a stain to human nature, and so odious in themselves, that every person actuated by right reason would avoid them, though he were sure they would be always concealed both from God and man, and had no future punishment entailed upon them.
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A nation can survive its fools, even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within....for the traitor appears not to be a traitor...he rots the soul of a nation...he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist.
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