"The evil implanted in man by nature spreads so imperceptibly, when the habit of wrong-doing is unchecked, that he himself can set no limit to his shamelessness."
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"He takes the greatest ornament from friendship, who takes modesty from it. [Lat., Maximum ornamentum amicitiae tollit, qui ex ea tollit verecudiam.]"
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"There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften. [Lat., Nullus dolor est quem non longinquitas temporis minuat ac molliat.]"
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"I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know."
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"According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another."
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"You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long. [Lat., Mature fieri senem, si diu velis esses senex.]"
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"Without your knowledge, the eyes and ears of many will see and watch you, as they have done already."
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"Hatred is inveterate anger."
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"There is no moment without some duty."
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"For he, indeed, who looks into the face of a friend beholds, as it were, a copy of himself."
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"If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains."
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"The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body."
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"Let arms give place to the robe, and the laurel of the warriors yield to the tongue of the orator."
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"Let the welfare of the people be the ultimate law."
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"When time and need require, we should resist with all our might, and prefer death to slavery and disgrace."
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"In this statement, my Scipio, I build on your own admirable definition, that there can be no community, properly so called, unless it be regulated by a combination of rights. And by this definition it appears that a multitude of men may be just as tyrannical as a single despot and indeed this is the most odious of all tyrannies, since no monster can be more barbarous than the mob, which assumes the name and mask of the people."
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"No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone."
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"Sound conviction should influence us rather than public opinion."
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"It is graceful in a man to think and to speak with propriety, to act with deliberation, and in every occurrence of life to find out and persevere in the truth. On the other hand, to be imposed upon, to mistake, to falter, and to be deceived, is as ungraceful as to rave or to be insane."
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"I hear Socrates saying that the best seasoning for food is hunger; for drink, thirst."
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