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As you have sown so shall you reap.

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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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Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed (from friendship). [Lat., Assentatio, vitiorum adjutrix, procul amoveatur.]

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The most evident difference between man and animals is this: the beast, in as much as it is largely motivated by the senses and with little perception of the past or future, lives only for the present. But man, because he is endowed with reason by which he is able to perceive relationships, sees the causes of things, understands the reciprocal nature of cause and effect, makes analogies, easily surveys the whole course of his life, and makes the necessary preparations for its conduct.

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To teach is a necessity, to please is a sweetness, to persuade is a victory.

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A war is never undertaken by the ideal state, except in defense of its honor or its safety.

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Let arms give place to the robe, and the laurel of the warriors yield to the tongue of the orator.

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Thus nature has no love for solitude, and always leans, as it were, on some support; and the sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship.

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All I can do is to urge on you to regard friendship as the greatest thing in the world; for there is nothing which so fits in with our nature, or is so exactly what we want in prosperity or adversity.

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We cannot employ the mind to advantage when we are filled with excessive food and drink.

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The science of love is the philosophy of the heart

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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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Nothing is difficult in the eyes of a lover.

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Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.

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Poor is the nation that has no heroes, but poorer still is the nation that having heroes, fails to remember and honor them.

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We forget our pleasures, we remember our sufferings.

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Modesty is that feeling by which honorable shame acquires a valuable and lasting authority.

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That, Senators, is what a favour from gangs amounts to. They refrain from murdering someone; then they boast that they have spared him!

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What is dishonestly got vanishes in profligacy.

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Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

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