"Through ignorance of what is good and what is bad, the life of men is greatly perplexed."
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"There is wickedness in the intention of wickedness, even though it be not perpetrated in the act."
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"Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defence can actually be just."
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"Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him."
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"The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil."
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"Morals today are corrupted by our worship of riches."
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"Nothing is so secure as that money will not defeat it."
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"Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum. (Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.)"
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"Probability is the very guide of life."
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"It is as hard for the good to suspect evil, as it is for the bad to suspect good."
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"What is permissible is not always honorable."
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"If a man cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of any feeling at all."
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"The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret -- that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him."
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"Ability without honor is useless."
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"Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom."
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"There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften."
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"It is not easy to distinguish between true and false affection, unless there occur one of those crises in which, as gold is tried by fire, so a faithful friendship may be tested by danger."
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"Borrowing from Peter to pay Paul."
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"He who acknowledges a kindness has it still, and he who has a grateful sense of it has requited it."
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"There is no mortal whom pain and disease do not reach."
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