"Before beginning, plan carefully."
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"Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end."
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"Exercise and temperance can preserve something of our early strength even in old age."
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"The more laws, the less justice."
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"To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul."
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"O tempora! O mores! O what times (are these)! what morals!"
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"The spirit is the true self. The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure."
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"It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal."
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"Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error."
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"Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends."
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"Law stands mute in the midst of arms."
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"Like, according to the old proverb, naturally goes with like."
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"Enjoy the blessing of strength while you have it and do not bewail it when it is gone, unless, forsooth, you believe that youth must lament the loss of infancy, or early manhood the passing of youth. Life's race-course is fixed; Nature has only a single path and that path is run but once, and to each stage of existence has been allotted its own appropriate quality; so that the weakness of childhood, the impetuosity of youth, the seriousness of middle life, the maturity of old age.. each bears some of Nature's fruit, which must be garnered in its own season."
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"By doubting we come at truth."
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"What is dishonorably got, is dishonorably squandered."
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"In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body."
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"To live long, live slowly."
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"You must therefore love me, myself, and not my circumstances, if we are to be real friends."
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"Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed."
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"A thankful heart is the greatest virtue."
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