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Our senses through ignorance of Reality, falsely tell us that what appears to be, is. FEAR = False Evidence Appearing Real
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The ripeness of adolescence is prodigal in pleasures, skittish, and in need of a bridle.
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Had I a careful and pleasant companion that should show me my angry face in a glass, I should not at all take it ill to behold man's self so unnaturally disguised and dishonored will conduce not a little to the impeachment of anger.
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For it was not so much that by means of words I came to a complete understanding of things, as that from things I somehow had an experience which enabled me to follow the meaning of words.
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So also it is good not always to make a friend of the person who is expert in twining himself around us but, after testing them, to attach ourselves to those who are worthy of our affection and likely to be serviceable to us.
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Pythias once, scoffing at Demosthenes, said that his arguments smelt of the lamp.
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The worship most acceptable to God comes from a thankful and cheerful heart.
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When malice is joined to envy, there is given forth poisonous and feculent matter, as ink from the cuttle-fish.
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He [Caesar] loved the treason, but hated the traitor.
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Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.
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For the mind does not require filling like a bottle, but rather, like wood, it only requires kindling to create in it an impulse to think independently and an ardent desire for the truth.
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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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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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There is no perfecter endowment in man than political virtue.
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Julius Caesar divorced his wife Pompeia, but declared at the trial that he knew nothing of what was alleged against her and Clodius. When asked why, in that case, he had divorced her, he replied: Because I would have the chastity of my wife clear even of suspicion.
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The obligations of law and equity reach only to mankind but kindness and beneficence should be extended to the creatures of every species, and these will flow from the breast of a true man, as streams that issue from the living fountain.
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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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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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