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To please the many is to displease the wise.
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He is a fool who lets slip a bird in the hand for a bird in the bush.
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It is easy to utter what has been kept silent, but impossible to recall what has been uttered.
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Beauty is the flower of virtue.
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We ought to regard books as we do sweetmeats, not wholly to aim at the pleasantest, but chiefly to respect the wholesomest not forbidding either, but approving the latter most.
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Speech is like cloth of Arras opened and put abroad, whereby the imagery doth appear in figure whereas in thoughts they lie but as packs.
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Nothing exists in the intellect that has not first gone through the senses.
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The man who is completely wise and virtuous has no need of glory, except so far as it disposes and eases his way to action by the greater trust that it procures him.
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Where two discourse, if the anger of one rises, he is the wise man who lets the contest fall.
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Extraordinary rains pretty generally fall after great battles.
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Caesar's wife should be above suspicion.
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He who least likes courting favour, ought also least to think of resenting neglect to feel wounded at being refused a distinction can only arise from an overweening appetite to have it.
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The present offers itself to our touch for only an instant of time and then eludes the senses.
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Themistocles being asked whether he would rather be Achilles or Homer, said, Which would you rather be, a conqueror in the Olympic games, or the crier that proclaims who are conquerors?
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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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We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away.
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