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I will go further, and assert that nature without culture can often do more to deserve praise than culture without nature.

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I depart from life as from an inn, and not as from my home. [Lat., Ex vita discedo, tanquam ex hospitio, non tanquam ex domo.]

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It is fortune, not wisdom, that rules man's life.

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They are, all of them, born with raging fanaticism in their hearts, just as the Bretons and the Germans are born with blond hair. I would not be in the least bit surprised if these people would not some day become deadly to the human race.

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Thou knowest how numerous this tribe is, how united and how powerful in the assemblies. I will plead in a low voice so that only the judges may hear, for instigators are not lacking to stir up the crowd against me, and against all the best citizens. To scorn, in the interest of the Republic, this multitude of Jews so often turbulent in the assemblies shows a singular strength of mind. The money is in the Treasury; they do not accuse us of theft; they seek to stir up hatreds.

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Peace is freedom in tranquility.

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How do our philosophers act? Do they not inscribe their signatures to the very essays they write on the propriety of despising glory.

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We can more easily avenge an injury than requite a kindness; on this account, because there is less difficulty in getting the better of the wicked than in making one's self equal with the good.

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It is a strong proof of men knowing most things before birth, that when mere children they grasp innumerable facts with such speed as to show that they are not then taking them in for the first time, but are remembering and recalling them.

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Man must suffer to be wise.

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It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.

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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

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It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

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Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.

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The chief recommendation is modesty, then dutiful conduct toward parents, then affection for kindred.

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Little by little old age renders the body less powerful.

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I am of opinion that there is nothing so beautiful but that there is something still more beautiful, of which this is the mere image and expression,--a something which can neither be perceived by the eyes, the ears, nor any of the senses; we comprehend it merely in the imagination.

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The first bond of society is the marriage tie; the next our children; then the whole family of our house, and all things in common.

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Within the character of the citizen, lies the welfare of the nation.

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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat. [Lat., Esse oportet ut vivas, non vivere ut edas.]

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