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Custom is almost a second nature.
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A prating barber asked Archelaus how he would be trimmed. He answered, In silence.
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The human heart becomes softened by hearing of instances of gentleness and consideration.
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Gout is not relieved by a fine shoe nor a hangnail by a costly ring nor migraine by a tiara.
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It is not reasonable that he who does not shoot should hit the mark, nor that he who does not stand fast at his post should win the day, or that the helpless man should succeed or the coward prosper.
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If Nature be not improved by instruction, it is blind if instruction be not assisted by Nature, it is maimed and if exercise fail of the assistance of both, it is imperfect.
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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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Dionysius the Elder, being asked whether he was at leisure, he replied, God forbid that it should ever befall me!
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For man is a plant, not fixed in the earth, nor immovable, but heavenly, whose head, rising as it were from a root upwards, is turned towards heaven.
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Grief is like a physical pain which must be allowed to subside somewhat on its own before medical treatment is applied.
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Children ought to be led to honorable practices by means of encouragement and reasoning, and most certainly not by blows and ill treatment.
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Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
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Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear at a penny.
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He [Caesar] loved the treason, but hated the traitor.
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The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it.
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I have heard that Tiberius used to say that that man was ridiculous, who after sixth years, appealed to a physician.
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It is no flattery to give a friend a due character for commendation is as much the duty of a friend as reprehension.
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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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