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Character is long-standing habit.
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It does not follow, that because a particular work of art succeeds in charming us, its creator also deserves our admiration.
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Solon being asked, namely, what city was best to live in. That city, he replied, in which those who are not wronged, no less than those who are wronged, exert themselves to punish the wrongdoers.
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It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears.
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He [Caesar] loved the treason, but hated the traitor.
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Ease and speed in doing a thing do not give the work lasting solidity or exactness of beauty.
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Sometimes small incidents, rather than glorious exploits, give us the best evidence of character. So, as portrait painters are more exact in doing the face, where the character is revealed, than the rest of the body, I must be allowed to give my more particular attention to the marks of the souls of men.
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If you declare that you are naturally designed for such a diet, then first kill for yourself what you want to eat. Do it, however, only through your own resources, unaided by cleaver or cudgel or any kind of ax
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Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.
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Spintharus, speaking in commendation of Epaminondas, says he scarce ever met with any man who knew more and spoke less.
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Vos vestros servate, meos mihi linquite mores You keep to your own ways, and leave mine to me
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Alexander esteemed it more kingly to govern himself than to conquer his enemies.
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The worship most acceptable to God comes from a thankful and cheerful heart.
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As small letters hurt the sight, so do small matters him that is too much intent upon them they vex and stir up anger, which begets an evil habit in him in reference to greater affairs.
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When Demosthenes was asked what was the first part of Oratory, he answered, Action, and which was the second, he replied, action, and which was the third, he still answered Action.
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