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If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
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The man who commands efficiently must have obeyed others in the past, and the man who obeys dutifully is worthy of someday being a commander.
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The life given us, by nature is short but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.
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The popular breeze - Aura popularis
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In a disturbed mind, as in a body in the same state, health can not exist.
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The Intellect engages us in the pursuit of Truth. The Passions impel us to Action.
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The sinews of war are infinite money.
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The man who is always fortunate cannot easily have a great reverence for virtue.
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To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul.
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Socrates, indeed, when he was asked of what country he called himself, said, Of the world for he considered himself an inhabitant and a citizen of the whole world.
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This excessive licence, which the anarchists think is the only true freedom, provides the stock, as it were, from which a tyrant grows.
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I know that it is likely that as worship of the gods declines, faith between men and all human society will disappear, as well as that most excellent of all virtues, which is justice.
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Virtue is increased by the smile of approval and the love of renown is the greatest incentive to honourable acts.
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I do not understand what the man who is happy wants in order to be happier.
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Sound conviction should influence us rather than public opinion.
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A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him.
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Judge not by the number, but by the weight.
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Whatever you do, do with all your might.
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The house should derive dignity from the master, not the master from the house.
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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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