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The master sometimes serves, and the servant sometimes is master.
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Let war be so carried on that no other object may seem to be sought but the acquisition of peace. [Lat., Bellum autem ita suscipiatur, ut nihil aliud, nisi pax, quaesita videatur.]
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All soils are not fertile.
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All I can do is to urge on you to regard friendship as the greatest thing in the world for there is nothing which so fits in with our nature, or is so exactly what we want in prosperity or adversity.
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To give counsel, as well as to take it, is a feature of true friendship.
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Though liberty is established by law, we must be vigilant, for liberty to enslave us is always present under that very liberty. Our Constitution speaks of the general welfare of the people. Under that phrase all sorts of excesses can be employed by lusting tyrants to make us bondsmen.
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We all are imbued with the love of praise.
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The whole glory of virtue resides in activity.
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Everyone has his besetting sin.
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Leisure with dignity.
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Read at every wait read at all hours read within leisure read in times of labor read as one goes in read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.
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Pardon is granted to necessity.
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The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.
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The face is a picture of the mind with the eyes as its interpreter.
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Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.
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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.
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What the object of senile avarice may be I cannot conceive. For can there be anything more absurd than to seek more journey money, the less there remains of the journey?
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In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.
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Rashness belongs to youth prudence to old age.
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I have sworn with my tongue, but my mind is unsworn. [Lat., Juravi lingua, mentem injuratem gero.]
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