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Crime and punishment grow out of one stem.

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Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.

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Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.

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A man cannot be wise enough to be a great artist without being wise enough to wish to be a philosopher.

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Whatever the situation may be, in the recollection of death there is reward and merit. For even the man engrossed in the world benefits from it by acquiring an aversion to this world, since it spoils his contentment and the fullness of his pleasure; and everything which spoils for man his pleasures and his appetites is one of the means of deliverance.

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Does the Eagle know what is in the pit Or wilt thou go ask the Mole? Can Wisdom be put in a silver rod, Or Love in a golden bowl?

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Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.

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Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

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Men pay most attention to what is their own: they care less for what is common; or, at any rate, they care for it only to the extent to which each is individually concerned.

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A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.

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Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.

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Every moment instructs, and every object; for wisdom is infused into every form. It has been poured into us as blood; it convulsed us as pain; it slid into us as pleasure; it enveloped us in dull, melancholy days, or in days of cheerful labor; we did not guess its essence until after long time.

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The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.

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Many roads lead to the Path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.

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Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.

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Many times the reading of a book has made the future of a man.

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We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital.

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He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.

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Everyone has his own conscience, and there should be no rules about how a conscience should function.

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The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.

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