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"What greater gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?"

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We learn nothing from history except that we learn nothing from history.

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I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.

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It is generally said, "Past labors are pleasant," Euripides says, for you all know the Greek verse, "The recollection of past labors is pleasant." [Lat., Vulgo enim dicitur, Jucundi acti labores: nec male Euripides: concludam, si potero, Latine: Graecum enim hunc versum nostis omnes: Suavis laborum est proeteritorum memoria.

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No sober person dances.

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Thus in the beginning the world was so made that certain signs come before certain events.

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It is a common saying that many pecks of salt must be eaten before the duties of friendship can be discharged.

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There is no duty more indispensible than that of returning a kindness.

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No one is so old that he does not think he could live another year.

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The hours pass and the days and the months and the years, and the past time never returns.

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We are born poets. we become orators.

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There is nothing which God cannot do. [Lat., Nihil est quod deus efficere non possit.]

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I remember the very thing that I do not wish to; I cannot forget the things I wish to forget.

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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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To wonder at nothing when it happens, to consider nothing impossible before it has come to pass.

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There is no moment without some duty.

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As you have sown so shall you reap.

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Nothing is so secure as that money will not defeat it.

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It is graceful in a man to think and to speak with propriety, to act with deliberation, and in every occurrence of life to find out and persevere in the truth. On the other hand, to be imposed upon, to mistake, to falter, and to be deceived, is as ungraceful as to rave or to be insane.

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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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