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If nature does not ratify law, then all the virtues may lose their sway.

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A letter does not blush.

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Hence that general is skilful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skilful in defense whose opponent does not know what to attack.

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Justice does not help those who slumber but helps only those who are vigilant.

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It is one thing to describe an interview with a gorgon or a griffin, a creature who does not exist. It is another thing to discover that the rhinoceros does exist and then take pleasure in the fact that he looks as if he didn't.

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The universal does not attract us until housed in an individual.

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HYENA, n. A beast held in reverence by some oriental nations from its habit of frequenting at night the burial-places of the dead. But the medical student does that

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Too great a display of delicacy can and does sometimes infringe upon de-cency.

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The poison by which the weaker nature is destroyed is strengthening to the strong individual and he does not call it poison.

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How does it happen, Maecenas, that no one is content with that lot in life which he has chosen, or which chance has thrown in his way, but praises those who follow a different course? [Lat., Qui fit, Maecenas, ut nemo quam sibi sortem, Seu ratio dederit, seu fors objecerit, illa Contentus vivat? laudet diversa sequentes.]

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Does anyone know where these gondolas of Paris come from? [Fr., Ne sait on pas ou viennent ces gondoles Parisiennes?]

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A good speaker does not stutter.

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Ah, on what little things does happiness depend.

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We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision. But if a decision itself were voluntary every decision would have to be preceded by a decision to decide - An infinite regression which fortunately does not occur. Oddly enough, if we had to decide to decide, we would not be free to decide

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When self control is lacking in small things, the ability to apply it to matters of importance withers away. Every day in which one does not at least deny himself some trifle is badly spent and a threat to the day following.

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There is not an inch of any sphere of life over which Jesus Christ does not say, 'Mine.'

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What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world's beauty, is everything!

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The Geneva Convention . . . says that there will be no outrages upon human dignity. It’s very vague. What does that mean, ‘outrages upon human dignity’?

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If a woman is partial to a man, and does not endeavour to conceal it, he must find it out." -Elizabeth

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When the lightning strikes but one, not one only does it terrify.

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