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Our country is wherever we are well off. [Lat., Patria est, ubicunque est bene.]
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Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.
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There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it.
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Silent enim leges inter arma (Laws are silent in times of war).
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Let the punishment be proportionate to the offense.
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In all great arts, as in trees, it is the height that charms us we care nothing for the roots or trunks, yet it could not be without the aid of these.
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He takes the greatest ornament from friendship, who takes modesty from it. [Lat., Maximum ornamentum amicitiae tollit, qui ex ea tollit verecudiam.]
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I know not any season of life that is past more agreeably than virtuous old age.
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There is no opinion so stupid that it can't be expressed by some philosopher.
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A perverse temper and fretful disposition will make any state of life whatsoever unhappy.
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There is nothing more shocking than to see assertion and approval dashing ahead of cognition and perception.
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For surely to be wise is the most desirable thing in all the world.
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I do not understand what the man who is happy wants in order to be happier.
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In a discussion of this kind our interest should be centered not on the weight of the authority but on the weight of the argument. Indeed the authority of those who set out to teach is often an impediment to those who wish to learn. They cease to use their own judgment and regard as gospel whatever is put forward by their chosen teacher.
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The name of peace is sweet and the thing itself good, but between peace and slavery there is the greatest difference.
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Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.
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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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I follow nature as the surest guide, and resign myself with implicit obedience to her sacred ordinances.
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It is a man's own dishonesty, his crimes, his wickedness, and boldness, that takes away from him soundness of mind these are the furies, these the flames and firebrands, of the wicked.
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To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul.
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