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Calamus fortior gladio.
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Life is nothing without friendship.
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No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for having changed his opinion.
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Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.
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If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.
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Reason is the mistress and queen of all things. [Lat., Domina omnium et regina ratio.]
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