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Do what you should, not what you may.
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What a great blessing is a friend with a heart so trusty you may safely bury all your secrets in it.
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Nobody becomes guilty by fate.
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Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
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There are a few men whom slavery holds fast, but there are many more who hold fast to slavery.
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It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
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The most miserable mortals are they that deliver themselves up to their palates, or to their lusts; the pleasure is short, and turns presently nauseous, and the end of it is either shame or repentance.
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Find a path or make one.
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The friends of the unfortunate live a long way off.
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We are more easily led part by part to an understanding of the whole.
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Every day, therefore, should be regulated as if it were the one that brings up the rear, the one that rounds out and completes our lives.
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If you don't know, ask. You will be a fool for the moment, but a wise man for the rest of your life.
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Love of action is not industry.
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The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.
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Man is a reasoning Animal.
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Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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That comes too late that comes for the asking.
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The largest part of goodness is the will to become good.
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Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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It does not matter how many books you have, but how good the books are which you have.
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If virtue precede us every step will be safe.
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We are members of one great body. Nature planted in us a mutual love, and fitted us for a social life. We must consider that we were born for the good of the whole.
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We are as answerable for what we give as for what we receive; nay, the misplacing of a benefit is worse than the not receiving of it; for the one is another person's fault, but the other is mine.
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Men's language is as their lives.
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