"Silence is one of the great arts of conversation."
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"Never was a government that was not composed of liars, malefactors and thieves."
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"The life of the dead is placed on the memories of the living. The love you gave in life keeps people alive beyond their time. Anyone who was given love will always live on in another's heart."
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"To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?"
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"Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error."
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"People don't know the value of what they have until it is gone: Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.... Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude. Don't wait till freedom is gone before you enjoy, value, support, protect and make the most of it!"
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"A man would have no pleasures in discovering all the beauties of the universe, even in heaven itself, unless he had a partner to whom he might communicate his joys."
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"I have always been of the opinion that unpopularity earned by doing what is right is not unpopularity at all, but glory."
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"Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief."
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"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within."
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"The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct."
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"The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk."
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"As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes."
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"I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity."
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"Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage."
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"Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable."
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"Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes."
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"Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom."
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"The budget should be balanced, the treasury refilled, public debt reduced, the arrogance of officialdom tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands curtailed, lest Rome become bankrupt."
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"When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff."
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