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The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.
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Poverty is never dishonourable in itself, but only when it is a mark of sloth, intemperance, extravagance, or thoughtlessness. When, on the other hand, it is the handmaid of a sober, industrious, righteous, and brave man, who devotes all his powers to the service of the people, it is the sign of a lofty spirit that harbours no mean thoughts
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God alone is entirely exempt from all want of human virtues, that which needs least is the most absolute and divine.
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Demosthenes told Phocion, The Athenians will kill you some day when they once are in a rage. And you, said he, if they are once in their senses.
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The ripeness of adolescence is prodigal in pleasures, skittish, and in need of a bridle.
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Talkativeness has another plague attached to it, even curiosity for praters wish to hear much that they may have much to say.
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To conduct great matters and never commit a fault is above the force of human nature.
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Lysander, when Dionysius sent him two gowns, and bade him choose which he would carry to his daughter, said, She can choose best, and so took both away with him.
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There is no debt with so much prejudice put off as that of justice.
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That we may consult concerning others, and not others concerning us.
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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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Were it only to learn benevolence to humankind, we should be merciful to other creatures.
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As Meander says, For our mind is God and as Heraclitus, Man's genius is a deity.
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The soul of man... is a portion or a copy of the soul of the Universe and is joined together on principles and in proportions corresponding to those which govern the Universe.
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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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The drop hollows out the stone not by strength, but by constant falling.
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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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It is not the most distinguished achievements that men's virtues or vices may be best discovered but very often an action of small note. An casual remark or joke shall distinguish a person's real character more than the greatest sieges, or the most important battles.
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I confess myself the greatest coward in the world, for I dare not do an ill thing.
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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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