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The proof of a well-trained mind is that it rejoices in which is good and grieves at the opposite.

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What is dishonorably got, is dishonorably squandered.

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Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.

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Longing not so much to change things as to overturn them.

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True nobility is exempt from fear.

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No one has lived a short life who has performed its duties with unblemished character.

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What is there that is illustrious that is not also attended by labor?

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Should this my firm persuasion of the soul's immortality prove to be a mere delusion, it is at least a pleasing delusion, and I will cherish it to my last breath.

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Dissimulation creeps gradually into the minds of men.

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Any man may make a mistake; none but a fool will stick to it. Second thoughts are best as the proverb says. [Lat., Cujusvis hominis est errare; nullius, nisi insipientis, in errore perseverae. Posteriores enim cogitationes (ut aiunt) sapientiores solent esse.]

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Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor can thoughts be made to shine without the light of language.

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It is a great proof of talents to be able to recall the mind from the senses, and to separate thought from habit.

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Nor am I ashamed, as some are, to confess my ignorance of those matters with which I am unacquainted.

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The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.

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Never can custom conquer nature, for she is ever unconquered.

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No one sees what is before his feet: we all gaze at the stars. [Lat., Quod est ante pedes nemo spectat: coeli scrutantur plagas.]

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There is no treasure the which may be compared unto a faithful friend; Gold some decayeth, and worldly wealth consumeth, and wasteth in the winde; But love once planted in a perfect and pure minde indureth weale and woe; The frownes of fortune, come they never so unkinde, cannot the same overthrowe.

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The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.

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O philosophy, life's guide! O searcher-out of virtue and expeller of vices! What could we and every age of men have been without thee? Thou hast produced cities; thou hast called men scattered about into the social enjoyment of life. [Lat., O vitae philosophia dux! O virtutis indagatrix, expultrixque vitiorum! Quid non modo nos, sed omnino vita hominum sine et esse potuisset? Tu urbes peperisti; tu dissipatos homines in societatum vitae convocasti.]

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Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.

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