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If nature does not ratify law, then all the virtues may lose their sway.

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The home is the empire! There is no peace more delightful than one's own fireplace.

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I do not understand what the man who is happy wants in order to be happier.

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To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?

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The happiest end of life is this: when the mind and the other senses being unimpaired, the same nature which put it together takes asunder her own work.

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Before beginning, prepare carefully.

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Everything is alive... Everything is interconnected.

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For what people have always sought is equality before the law. For rights that were not open to all alike would be no rights.

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In ancient times music was the foundation of all the sciences. Education was begun with music with the persuasion that nothing could be expected of a man who was ignorant of music.

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Let war be so carried on that no other object may seem to be sought but the acquisition of peace. [Lat., Bellum autem ita suscipiatur, ut nihil aliud, nisi pax, quaesita videatur.]

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We rejoice in the joys of our friends as much as we do our own, and we are equally grieved at their sorrows. Wherefore the wise people will feel toward their friends as they do toward themselves, and whatever labor they would encounter with a view to their own pleasure, they will encounter also for the sake of their friends.

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We are obliged to respect, defend and maintain the common bonds of union and fellowship that exist among all members of the human race.

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There is in fact a true law namely right reason, which is in accordance with nature, applies to all men and is unchangeable and eternal. ... It will not lay down one rule at Rome and another at Athens, nor will it be one rule today and another tomorrow. But there will be one law eternal and unchangeable binding all times and upon all peoples.

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It is exercise alone that supports the spirits, and keeps the mind in vigor.

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He who has a garden and a library wants for nothing.

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Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift?

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A sensual and intemperate youth hands over a worn-out body to old age. [Lat., Libidinosa etenim et intemperans adolescentiam effoetum corpus tradit senectuti.]

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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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Quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra? In heaven's name,Catiline, how long will you abuse ourpatience?

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Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses for which others are not even indicted.

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