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Can any one find in what condition his body will be, I do not say a year hence, but this evening?

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All the arts, which have a tendency to raise man in the scale of being, have a certain common band of union, and are connected, if I may be allowed to say so, by blood-relationship with one another.

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Virtue is uniform, conformable to reason, and of unvarying consistency; nothing can be added to it that can make it more than virtue; nothing can be taken from it, and the name of virtue be left.

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Any man may make a mistake; none but a fool will stick to it. Second thoughts are best as the proverb says.

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The office of liberality consisteth in giving with judgment.

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Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

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Every man's friend is no man's friend.

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Prudence must not be expected from a man who is never sober. [Lat., Non est ab homine nunquam sobrio postulanda prudentia.]

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Ignorance of impending evil is far better than a knowledge of its approach.

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I do not now so much as wish to have the Strength of Youth again that I wish'd in Youth for the Strength of an Ox or Elephant. For it is our Business only to make the best Use we can of the Powers granted us by Nature.

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There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.

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O philosophy, life's guide! O searcher-out of virtue and expeller of vices! What could we and every age of men have been without thee? Thou hast produced cities; thou hast called men scattered about into the social enjoyment of life. [Lat., O vitae philosophia dux! O virtutis indagatrix, expultrixque vitiorum! Quid non modo nos, sed omnino vita hominum sine et esse potuisset? Tu urbes peperisti; tu dissipatos homines in societatum vitae convocasti.]

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True law is right reason in agreement with nature;...it summons to duty by its commands, and averts from wrongdoing by its prohibitions... It is a sin to try to alter this law, nor is it allowable to attempt to repeal any part of it, and it is impossible to abolish it entirely.

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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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Do nothing twice over.

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In friendship we find nothing false or insincere; everything is straight forward, and springs from the heart.

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Here is a man whose life and actions the world has already condemned - yet whose enormous fortune...has already brought him acquittal!

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It is a great thing to know your vices.

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A dissolute and intemperate youth hands down the body to old age in a worn-out state.

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Life without learning is death.

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