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No man was ever great without divine inspiration. [Lat., Nemo vir magnus aliquo afflatu divino unquam fuit.]
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The chief recommendation is modesty, then dutiful conduct toward parents, then affection for kindred.
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Nature has lent us life at interest, like money, and has fixed no day for its payment.
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Saving the virtues includes all other advantages
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The budget should be balanced, the treasury refilled, public debt reduced, the arrogance of officialdom tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands curtailed, lest Rome become bankrupt.
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In everything, without doubt, truth has the advantage over imitation.
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What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.
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So you see, old age is really not so bad. May you come to know the condition!
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There is no castle so strong that it cannot be overthrown by money.
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To live long it is necessary to live slowly.
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The great theatre for virtue is conscience.
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Nothing is so secure as that money will not defeat it.
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Pardon is granted to necessity.
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What is impossible by the nature of things is not confirmed by any law.
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Let the punishment match the offense.
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Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice.
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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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Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.
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History is truely the witness of times past, the light of truth, the life of memory, the teacher of life, the messenger of antiquity.
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What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?
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