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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.
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In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.
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Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.
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Laws should be interpreted in a liberal sense so that their intention may be preserved.
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The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.
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Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.
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What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?
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What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.
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It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.
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Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.
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In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.
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Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.
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In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.
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He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.
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Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.
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Thrift is of great revenue.
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All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.
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Justice is the set and constant purpose which gives every man his due.
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Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.
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The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.
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Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.
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For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others.
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To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.
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No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone.
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