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Reason should direct, and appetite obey.

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Come now: Do we really think that the gods are everywhere called by the same names by which they are addressed by us? But the gods have as many names as there are languages among humans. For it is not with the gods as with you: you are Velleius wherever you go, but Vulcan is not Vulcan in Italy and in Africa and in Spain.

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These (literary) studies are the food of youth, and consolation of age; they adorn prosperity, and are the comfort and refuge of adversity; they are pleasant at home, and are no incumbrance abroad; they accompany us at night, in our travels, and in our rural retreats.

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As thou sowest, so shalt thou reap.

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Vivere est cogitare. (To think is to live)

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Justice is the set and constant purpose which gives every man his due.

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It is disgraceful when the passers-by exclaim, "O ancient house! alas, how unlike is thy present master to thy former one.

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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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An intemperate, disorderly youth will bring to old age, a feeble and worn-out body.

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Nature ordains that a man should wish the good of every man, whoever he may be, for this very reason that he is a man.

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As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

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Nature has circumscribed the field of life within small dimensions, but has left the field of glory unmeasured.

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Nature abhors annihilation.

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Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed (from friendship). [Lat., Assentatio, vitiorum adjutrix, procul amoveatur.]

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Memory is the receptacle and sheath of all knowledge

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War should be undertaken in such a way as to show that its only object is peace.

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The world has not yet learned the riches of frugality.

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In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.

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It is a man's own dishonesty, his crimes, his wickedness, and boldness, that takes away from him soundness of mind; these are the furies, these the flames and firebrands, of the wicked.

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Oh, how great is the power of truth! which of its own power can easily defend itself against all the ingenuity and cunning and wisdom of men, and against the treacherous plots of all the world.

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