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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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There is a certain virtue in every good man, which night and day stirs up the mind with the stimulus of glory, and reminds it that all mention of our name will not cease at the same time with our lives, but that our fame will endure to all posterity.

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There is no thing which God cannot accomplish.

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No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest good.

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In fact the whole passion ordinarily termed love (and heaven help me if I can think of any other term to apply to it) is of such exceeding triviality that I see nothing that I think comparable with it.

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Inhumanity is harmful in every age. - Inhumanitas omni aetate molesta est

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Just what is the civil law? What neither influence can affect, nor power break, nor money corrupt: were it to be suppressed or even merely ignored or inadequately observed, no one would feel safe about anything, whether his own possessions, the inheritance he expects from his father, or the bequests he makes to his children.

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Nothing is too absurd to be said by some of the philosophers.

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I know not any season of life that is past more agreeably than virtuous old age.

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That which is usually called dotage is not the weak point of all old men, but only of such as are distinguished by their levity.

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It is better to receive than to do injury.

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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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Slowly and imperceptibly old age comes creeping on.

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We do not destroy religion by destroying superstition.

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In prosperity let us most carefully avoid pride, disdain, and arrogance.

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How much in love with himself, and that too without a rival!

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Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

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Kindness is produced by kindness.

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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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Our generosity never should exceed our abilities.

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