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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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Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice.
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Let every man practice the art that he knows best.
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Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.
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The existence of virtue depends entirely upon its use.
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We are born poets. we become orators.
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These studies are a spur to the young, a delight to the old: an ornament in prosperity, a consoling refuge in adversity they are pleasure for us at home, and no burden abroad they stay up with us at night, they accompany us when we travel, they are with us in our country visits.
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It is difficult to remember all, and ungracious to omit any.
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Nature abhors annihilation. [Lat., Ab interitu naturam abhorrere.]
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He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.
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There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften.
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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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The proof of a well-trained mind is that it rejoices in which is good and grieves at the opposite.
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Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.
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For surely to be wise is the most desirable thing in all the world.
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Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.
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The searching-out and thorough investigation of truth ought to be the primary study of man.
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Let a man practice the profession which he best knows.
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Everyone has his besetting sin.
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Vicious habits are so odious and degrading that they transform the individual who practices them into an incarnate demon.
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