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The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.
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Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.
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It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.
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When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
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Empire and liberty.
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Laws are silent in time of war.
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You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.
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Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
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Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.
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According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.
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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.
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Every man's reputation proceeds from those of his own household.
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The best interpreter of the law is custom.
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This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.
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We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.
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There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.
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Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
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Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.
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The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.
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The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.
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We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.
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Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
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No one can give you better advice than yourself.
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Before beginning, plan carefully.
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