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Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

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The name of peace is sweet, the thing itself is most salutary.

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I speak of that learning which wakes us acquainted with the boundless extent of nature, and the universe, and which even while we remain in this world, discovers to us both heaven, earth, and sea.

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I have never yet known a poet who did not think himself super-excellent.

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Let every man practice the art that he knows best.

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For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others.

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It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal.

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When money is unreasonably coveted, it is a disease of the mind which is called avarice.

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Man is his own worst enemy. [Lat., Nihil inimicius quam sibi ipse.]

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What is impossible by the nature of things is not confirmed by any law.

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For one day spent well, and agreeably to your precepts, is preferable to an eternity of error.

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In times of war, the law falls silent.

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The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.

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To some extent I liken slavery to death.

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A man does not wonder at what he sees frequently, even though he be ignorant of the reason. If anything happens which he has not seen before, he calls it a prodigy.

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The following passage is one of those cited by Copernicus himself in his preface to De Revolutionibus: "The Syracusan Hicetas, as Theophrastus asserts, holds the view that the heaven, sun, moon, stars, and in short all of the things on high are stationary, and that nothing in the world is in motion except the earth, which by revolving and twisting round its axis with extreme velocity produces all the same results as would be produced if the earth were stationary and the heaven in motion. . . ."

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The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

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All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

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Philosophy is the true mother of science.

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Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.

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