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The searching-out and thorough investigation of truth ought to be the primary study of man.

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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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The more peculiarly his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

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A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues. [Lat., Gratus animus est una virtus non solum maxima, sed etiam mater virtutum onmium reliquarum.]

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Like readily consorts with like.

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The science of love is the philosophy of the heart

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In the conduct of almost every affair slowness and procrastination are hateful

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Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century: Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others; Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected; Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it; Refusing to set aside trivial preferences; Neglecting development and refinement of the mind; Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.

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A nation can survive its fools, even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within....for the traitor appears not to be a traitor...he rots the soul of a nation...he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist.

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Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice.

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

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He takes the greatest ornament from friendship, who takes modesty from it. [Lat., Maximum ornamentum amicitiae tollit, qui ex ea tollit verecudiam.]

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The memory of past troubles is pleasant. [Lat., Jucunda memoria est praeteritorum malorum.]

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The first bond of society is the marriage tie; the next our children; then the whole family of our house, and all things in common.

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Who doesn't know that the first law of history is not to dare to say anything false, and the second is not to refrain from saying anything true?

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The avarice of the old: it's absurd to increase one's luggage as one nears the journey's end.

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I prefer silent prudence to loquacious folly. [Lat., Malo indisertam prudentiam, quam loquacem stultitiam.]

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It is not only arrogant, but it is profligate, for a man to disregard the world's opinion of himself.

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Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

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It is difficult to persuade mankind that the love of virtue is the love of themselves.

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