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The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

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

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The real friend is another self.

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It is besides necessary that whoever is brave should be a man of great soul.

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Genius is fostered by industry.

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No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for having changed his opinion.

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Pleasure blinds (so to speak) the eyes of the mind, and has no fellowship with virtue.

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Life without learning is death.

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Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

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Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

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Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.

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What is dignity without honesty?

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Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

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The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.

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Let art, then, imitate nature, find what she desires, and follow as she directs. For in invention nature is never last, education never first; rather the beginnings of things arise from natural talent, and ends are reached by discipline.

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Vicious habits are so great a stain to human nature, and so odious in themselves, that every person actuated by right reason would avoid them, though he were sure they would be always concealed both from God and man, and had no future punishment entailed upon them.

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There is no place more delightful than one's own fireside. Nullus est locus domestica sede jucundior.

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But if you should take the bond of goodwill out of the universe no house or city could stand, nor would even the tillage of the fields abide. If that statement is not clear, then you may understand how great is the power of friendship and of concord from a consideration of the results of enmity and disagreement. For what house is so strong, or what state so enduring that it cannot be utterly overthrown by animosities and division?

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Longing not so much to change things as to overturn them.

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