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The great theatre for virtue is conscience.
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Fortune is not only blind herself, but blinds the people she has embraced.
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No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.
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I believe that no characteristic is so distinctively human as the sense of indebtedness we feel, not necessarily for a favor received, but even for the slightest evidence of kindness and there is nothing so boorish, savage, inhuman as to appear to be overwhelmed by a favor, let alone unworthy of it.
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It is not the place that maketh the person, but the person that maketh the place honorable.
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Were floods of tears to be unloosed In tribute to my grief, The doves of Noah ne'er had roost Nor found an olive-leaf.
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Man's best support is a very dear friend.
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Certain signs are the forerunners of certain events.
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Nothing quite new is perfect.
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As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.
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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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What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.
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To give counsel, as well as to take it, is a feature of true friendship.
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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.
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It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.
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Lucius Cassius ille quem populus Romanus verissimum et sapientissimum iudicem putabat identidem in causis quaerere solebat 'cui bono' fuisset. The famous Lucius Cassius, whom the Roman people used to regard as a very honest and wise judge, was in the habit of asking, time and again, 'To whose benefit?
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Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.
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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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Who does not know history's first law to be that an author must not dare to tell anything but the truth? And its second that he must make bold to tell the whole truth? That there must be no suggestion of partiality anywhere in his writings? Nor of malice?
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If nature does not ratify law, then all the virtues may lose their sway.
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