"He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing."
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"The spirit is the true self."
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"True glory strikes root, and even extends itself; all false pretensions fall as do flowers, nor can any feigned thing be lasting."
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"For even if the allotted space of life be short, it is long enough in which to live honorably and well."
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"In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men."
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"Friendship is given us by nature, not to favor vice, but to aid virtue."
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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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"Great is the power, great is the authority of a senate that is unanimous in its opinions."
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"He cannot be strict in judging, who does not wish others to be strict judges of himself."
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"I follow nature as the surest guide, and resign myself with implicit obedience to her sacred ordinances."
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"No sane man will dance."
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"No one sees what is before his feet: we all gaze at the stars. [Lat., Quod est ante pedes nemo spectat: coeli scrutantur plagas.]"
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"We make allowance for necessity."
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"The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust."
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"Enmity is anger watching the opportunity for revenge."
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"Thus nature has no love for solitude, and always leans, as it were, on some support; and the sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship."
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"More law, less justice."
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"We do not destroy religion by destroying superstition."
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"We were born to unite with our fellow men, and to join in community with the human race."
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"When I consider the wonderful activity of the mind, so great a memory of what is past, and such a capacity of penetrating into the future: when I behold such a number of arts and sciences, and such a multitude of discoveries hence arising,--I believe and am firmly persuaded that a nature which contains so many things within itself cannot be mortal."
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