"I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own."
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"Every man should bear his own grievances rather than detract from the comforts of another."
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"In a discussion of this kind our interest should be centered not on the weight of the authority but on the weight of the argument. Indeed the authority of those who set out to teach is often an impediment to those who wish to learn. They cease to use their own judgment and regard as gospel whatever is put forward by their chosen teacher."
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"In anger nothing right nor judicious can be done."
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"Hunger is the best sauce."
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"Strict law is often great injustice."
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"Would that I could discover truth as easily as I can uncover falsehood."
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"To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbsial disgrace."
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"In prosperity let us most carefully avoid pride, disdain, and arrogance."
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"History is indeed the witness of the times, the light of truth."
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"The works of nature must all be accounted good."
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"The master sometimes serves, and the servant sometimes is master."
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"Even while Jerusalem was standing and the Jews were at peace with us, the practice of their sacred rites was at variance with the glory of our empire, the dignity of our name, the customs of our ancestors."
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"Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age."
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"Friends are proved by adversity."
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"All action is of the mind and the mirror of the mind is the face, its index the eyes."
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"The whole life of a philosopher is the meditation of his death."
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"Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?"
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"Justice extorts no reward, no kind of price; she is sought, therefore, for her own sake."
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"Fortune is not only blind herself, but blinds the people she has embraced."
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