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Oh, what a world full of pain we create, for a little taste upon the tongue.
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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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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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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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There is never the body of a man, how strong and stout soever, if it be troubled and inflamed, but will take more harm and offense by wine being poured into it.
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Alexander wept when he heard from Anaxarchus that there was an infinite number of worlds and his friends asking him if any accident had befallen him, he returns this answer: Do you not think it a matter worthy of lamentation that when there is such a vast multitude of them, we have not yet conquered one?
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Beauty is the flower of virtue.
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Being summoned by the Athenians out of Sicily to plead for his life, Alcibiades absconded, saying that that criminal was a fool who studied a defence when he might fly for it.
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Time which diminishes all things increases understanding for the aging.
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To conduct great matters and never commit a fault is above the force of human nature.
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Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.
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Vos vestros servate, meos mihi linquite mores You keep to your own ways, and leave mine to me
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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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Cato used to assert that wise men profited more by fools than fools by wise men for that wise men avoided the faults of fools, but that fools would not imitate the good examples of wise men.
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The poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others.
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The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits.
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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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I confess myself the greatest coward in the world, for I dare not do an ill thing.
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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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