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So very difficult a matter is it to trace and find out the truth of anything by history.
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For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.
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Instead of using medicine, better fast today.
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The Epicureans, according to whom animals had no creation, doe suppose that by mutation of one into another, they were first made for they are the substantial part of the world like as Anaxagoras and Euripides affirme in these tearmes: nothing dieth, but in changing as they doe one for another they show sundry formes.
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As soft wax is apt to take the stamp of the seal, so are the minds of young children to receive the instruction imprinted on them.
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The abuse of buying and selling votes crept in and money began to play an important part in determining elections. Later on, this process of corruption spread to the law courts. And then to the army, and finally the Republic was subjected to the rule of emperors
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Demosthenes overcame and rendered more distinct his inarticulate and stammering pronunciation by speaking with pebbles in his mouth.
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The generous mind adds dignity to every act, and nothing misbecomes it.
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Let a prince be guarded with soldiers, attended by councillors, and shut up in forts yet if his thoughts disturb him, he is miserable.
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It is the usual consolation of the envious, if they cannot maintain their superiority, to represent those by whom they are surpassed as inferior to some one else.
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Nor let us part with justice, like a cheap and common thing, for a small and trifling price.
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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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Immoderate grief is selfish, harmful, brings no advantage to either the mourner or the mourned, and dishonors the dead.
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Friendship is the most pleasant of all things, and nothing more glads the heart of man.
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Whenever anything is spoken against you that is not true, do not pass by or despise it because it is false but forthwith examine yourself, and consider what you have said or done that may administer a just occasion of reproof.
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They fought indeed and were slain, but it was to maintain the luxury and the wealth of other men.
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A Locanian having plucked all the feathers off from a nightingale and seeing what a little body it had, surely, quoth he, thou art all voice and nothing else.
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Zeno first started that doctrine, that knavery is the best defence against a knave.
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Scilurus on his death-bed, being about to leave four-score sons surviving, offered a bundle of darts to each of them, and bade them break them. When all refused, drawing out one by one, he easily broke them, thus teaching them that if they held together, they would continue strong but if they fell out and were divided, they would become weak.
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The richest soil, if uncultivated, produces the rankest weeds.
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