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The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.
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Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.
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Advice is judged by results, not by intentions.
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History is indeed the witness of the times, the light of truth.
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To give and receive advice - the former with freedom, and yet without bitterness, the latter with patience and without irritation - is peculiarly appropriate to geniune friendship.
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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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Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.
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To freemen, threats are impotent. [Lat., Nulla enim minantis auctoritas apud liberos est.]
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Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.
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We should be as careful of our words as of our actions.
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The good of the people is the greatest law.
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The whole of virtue consists in its practice.
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The Jews belong to a dark and repulsive force. One knows how numerous this clique is, how they stick together and what power they exercise through their unions. They are a nation of rascals and deceivers.
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Man was born for two things--thinking and acting.
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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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No one sees what is before his feet: we all gaze at the stars. [Lat., Quod est ante pedes nemo spectat: coeli scrutantur plagas.]
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All places are filled with fools. [Lat., Stultorum plenea sunt omnia.]
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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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You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long. [Lat., Mature fieri senem, si diu velis esses senex.]
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