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Prudence in action avails more than wisdom in conception.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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This, therefore, is a law not found in books, but written on the fleshly tablets of the heart, which we have not learned from man, received or read, but which we have caught up from Nature herself, sucked in and imbibed the knowledge of which we were not taught, but for which we were made we received it not by education, but by intuition.
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The beauty of the world and the orderly arrangement of everything celestial makes us confess that there is an excellent and eternal nature, which ought to be worshiped and admired by all mankind.
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Aristoteles quidem ait: 'Omnes ingeniosos melancholicos esse.' Aristotle says that all men of genius are melancholy.
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Do nothing twice over.
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It is besides necessary that whoever is brave should be a man of great soul.
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The man who is always fortunate cannot easily have a great reverence for virtue.
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