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When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
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If I am mistaken in my opinion that the human soul is immortal, I willingly err nor would I have this pleasant error extorted from me and if, as some minute philosophers suppose, death should deprive me of my being, I need not fear the raillery of those pretended philosophers when they are no more.
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Slowly and imperceptibly old age comes creeping on.
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No wise man has called a change of opinion in constancy.
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When time and need require, we should resist with all our might, and prefer death to slavery and disgrace.
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We learn nothing from history except that we learn nothing from history.
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So it may well be believed that when I found him taking a complete holiday, with a vast supply of books at command, he had the air of indulging in a literary debauch, if the term may be applied to so honorable an occupation.
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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.
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Justice renders to every one his due.
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There is no mortal whom pain and disease do not reach.
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Thus in the beginning the world was so made that certain signs come before certain events.
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There are two ways to resolve conflicts, through violence or through negotiation. Violence is for wild beasts, negotiation is for human beings.
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To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul.
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Leisure with dignity.
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The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.
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Man is his own worst enemy.
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The comfort derived from the misery of others is slight.
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It is besides necessary that whoever is brave should be a man of great soul.
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Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness.
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Nothing is so unpredictable as a throw of the dice, and yet every man who plays often will at some time or other make a Venus-cast: now and then he indeed will make it twice and even thrice in succession. Are we going to be so feebleminded then as to aver that such a thing happened by the personal intervention of Venus rather than by pure luck?
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