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The worship most acceptable to God comes from a thankful and cheerful heart.
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Even a nod from a person who is esteemed is of more force than a thousand arguments or studied sentences from others.
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Prosperity has this property, it puffs up narrow Souls, makes them imagine themselves high and mighty, and look down upon the World with Contempt but a truly noble and resolved Spirit appears greatest in Distress, and then becomes more bright and conspicuous.
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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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Agesilaus was very fond of his children and it is reported that once toying with them he got astride upon a reed as upon a horse, and rode about the room and being seen by one of his friends, he desired him not to speak of it till he had children of his own.
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For he who gives no fuel to fire puts it out, and likewise he who does not in the beginning nurse his wrath and does not puff himself up with anger takes precautions against it and destroys it.
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Learn to be pleased with everything...because it could always be worse, but isn't!
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When I myself had twice or thrice made a resolute resistance unto anger, the like befell me that did the Thebans who, having once foiled the Lacedaemonians (who before that time had held themselves invincible), never after lost so much as one battle which they fought against them.
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It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.
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Beauty is the flower of virtue.
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To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.
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