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Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.

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If the truth were self-evident, eloquence would be unnecessary.

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Guilt is present in the very hesitation, even though the deed be not committed.

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It is better to receive than to do injury.

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The foundation of justice is good faith.

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Let war yield to peace, laurels to paeans.

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Everyone has his besetting sin.

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Taxes are the sinews of the state.

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The mind becomes accustomed to things by the habitual sight of them, and neither wonders nor inquires about the reasons for things it sees all the time.

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Little by little old age renders the body less powerful.

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For even if the allotted space of life be short, it is long enough in which to live honorably and well.

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In doubtful cases the more liberal interpretation must always be preferred.

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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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But in every matter the consensus of opinion among all nations is to be regarded as the law of nature.

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You must therefore love me, myself, and not my circumstances, if we are to be real friends.

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No grief is so acute but time ameliorates it.

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Now in regard to trades and other means of livelihood, which ones are to be considered becoming to a gentleman and which ones are vulgar, we have been taught, in general, as follows. First, those means of livelihood are rejected as undesirable which incur people's ill-will, as those of tax-gatherers and usurers. Unbecoming to a gentleman, too, and vulgar are the means of livelihood of all hired workmen whom we pay for mere manual labour, not for artistic skill; for in their case the very wage they receive is a pledge of their slavery.

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Before beginning, plan carefully.

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In the conduct of almost every affair slowness and procrastination are hateful

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Learning maketh young men temperate, is the comfort of old age, standing for wealth with poverty, and serving as an ornament to riches.

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