"Conscience, that boon companion who sets a man free under the strong breastplate of innocence, that bids him on and fear not."
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"Oh blind! Oh ignorant, self-seeking cupidity which spurs us so in the short mortal life and steeps us so through all eternity!"
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"If a thief helps a poor man out of the spoils of his thieving, we must not call that charity."
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"Love kindled by virtue always kindles another, provided that its flame appear outwardly."
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"I affirm that gain is precisely that which comes oftener to the bad man than to the good; for illegitimate gains never come to the good at all, because they reject them. And lawful gains rarely come to the good, because, since much anxious care is needful thereto, and the anxious care of the good man is directed to weightier matters, rarely does the good man give sufficient attention thereto. Wherefore it is clear that in every way the advent of these riches is iniquitous."
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"At the midpoint on the journey of life, I found myself in a dark forest, for the clear path was lost."
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"O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!"
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"Through me you go into a city of weeping; through me you go into eternal pain; through me you go amongst the lost people"
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"There, pride, avarice, and envy are the tongues men know and heed, a Babel of depsair"
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"The human race finds itself in a better situation when it has the higher level of freedom."
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"There sighs, lamentations and loud wailings resounded through the starless air, so that at first it made me weep; strange tongues, horrible language, words of pain, tones of anger, voices loud and hoarse, and with these the sound of hands, made a tumult which is whirling through that air forever dark, and sand eddies in a whirlwind."
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"He is not always at ease who laughs."
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"But if, as morning rises, dreams are true."
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"O faithful conscience, delicately pure, how doth a little failing wound thee sore!"
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"I was so full of sleep at the time that I left the true way."
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"Nothing which is harmonized by the bond of the Muse can be changed from its own to another language without destroying its sweetness"
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"The glory of Him who moves everything penetrates through the universe, and is resplendent in one part more and in another less."
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"In His will, our peace."
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"The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come."
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"As fall the light autumnal leaves, one still the other following, till the bough strews all its honors on the earth below."
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