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We suffer more in imagination than in reality.
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Calamity is virtue's opportunity.
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Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
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A disease is farther on the road to being cured when it breaks forth from concealment and manifests its power.
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He is a king who fears nothing, he is a king who desires nothing!
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Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man's power to live long.
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Corporeal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.
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The real compensation of a right action is inherent in having performed it.
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Men practice war; beasts do not.
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But it is a pretty thing to see what money will do!
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Familiarity reduces the greatness of things.
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It is not goodness to be better than the worst.
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True love hates and will not bear delay.
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No man is free who is a slave to the flesh.
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You need a change of soul rather than a change of climate.
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Our fears vanish as the danger approaches.
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Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
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Hold fast then to this sound and wholesome rule of life; indulge the body only as far as is needful for health.
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There has never been any great genius without a spice of madness.
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The artist finds a greater pleasure in painting than in having completed the picture.
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Our life's a moment and less than a moment, but even this mite nature has mockingly humored with some appearance of a longer span.
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Principles are like seeds; they are little things which do much good, if the mind that receives them has the right attitudes.
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Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
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Ignorance is the cause of fear.
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