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It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence.
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A good portion of speaking will consist in knowing how to lie.
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Don't give your advice before you are called upon.
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Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders.
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Fortune favors the audacious.
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He who allows oppression shares the crime.
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What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.
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When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.
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The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.
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The more ignorant, reckless and thoughtless a doctor is, the higher his reputation soars even amongst powerful princes.
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Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known.
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Luther was guilty of two great crimes - he struck the Pope in his crown, and the monks in their belly.
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Man is to man either a god or a wolf.
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The desire to write grows with writing.
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If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.
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It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
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Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.
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Concealed talent brings no reputation.
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War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.
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Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.
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Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals, especially in the more thoughtful men, which makes them dissatisfied with their own lot and envious of another's.
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Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.
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Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age?
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Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed.
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