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As you have sown so shall you reap.

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He who hangs on the errors of the ignorant multitude, must not be counted among great men.

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Thrift is of great revenue.

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For of all gainful professions, nothing is better, nothing more pleasing, nothing more delightful, nothing better becomes a well-bred man than #‎ agriculture

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All literature, all philosophical treatises, all the voices of antiquity are full of examples for imitation, which would all lie unseen in darkness without the light of literature.

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The master sometimes serves, and the servant sometimes is master.

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Death approaches, which is always impending like the stone over Tantalus: then comes superstition with which he who is imbued can never have peace of mind.

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To give and receive advice - the former with freedom, and yet without bitterness, the latter with patience and without irritation - is peculiarly appropriate to geniune friendship.

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Let your desires be ruled by reason.

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It is fortune, not wisdom, that rules man's life.

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Our liberality should not exceed our ability.

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To live long it is necessary to live slowly.

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The name of peace is sweet and the thing itself good, but between peace and slavery there is the greatest difference.

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Judge not by the number, but by the weight.

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Hunger is the best sauce.

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There is nothing which wings its flight so swiftly as calumny, nothing is uttered with more ease; nothing is listened to with more readiness, nothing disbursed more widely.

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Let the punishment be equal with the offence. [Lat., Noxiae poena par esto.]

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They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper.

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Friendship, on the other hand, serves a great host of different purposes all at the same time. In whatever direction you turn, it still remains yours. No barrier can shut it out. It can never be untimely; it can never be in the way. We need friendship all the time, just as much as we need the proverbial prime necessities of life, fire and water.

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If our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right.

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