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After victory, you have more enemies.
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In our amusements a certain limit is to be placed that we may not devote ourselves to a life of pleasure and thence fall into immorality.
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By doubting we come at truth.
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If a man cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of any feeling at all.
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The face is a picture of the mind with the eyes as its interpreter.
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Quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra? In heaven's name,Catiline, how long will you abuse ourpatience?
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There is no more sure tie between friends than when they are united in their objects and wishes.
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Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinion, most praiseworthy: not that the public eye should be entirely avoided, for good actions desire to be placed in the light but notwithstanding this, the greatest theater for virtue is conscience.
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To give counsel, as well as to take it, is a feature of true friendship.
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Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.
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I shall always consider the best guesser the best prophet.
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Through ignorance of what is good and what is bad, the life of men is greatly perplexed.
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For what is there more hideous than avarice, more brutal than lust, more contemptible than cowardice, more base than stupidity and folly?
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Nature has granted the use of life like a loan, without fixing any day for repayment.
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Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.
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No sane man will dance.
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An agreement of rash men (a conspiracy).
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I am pleased to be praised by a man so praised as you, father. [Words used by Hector.] [Lat., Laetus sum Laudari me abs te, pater, laudato viro.]
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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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Things perfected by nature are better than those finished by art.
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