"To teach is a necessity, to please is a sweetness, to persuade is a victory."
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"In ancient times music was the foundation of all the sciences. Education was begun with music with the persuasion that nothing could be expected of a man who was ignorant of music."
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"That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place."
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"Advice is judged by results, not by intentions."
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"The impulse which directs to right conduct, and deters from crime, is not only older than the ages of nations and cities, but coeval with that Divine Being who sees and rules both heaven and earth."
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"This is our special duty, that if anyone specially needs our help, we should give him such help to the utmost of our power."
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"When confronted by a hungry wolf, it is unwise to goad the beast, as Cato would have us do. But it is equally unwise to imagine the snarling animal a friend and offer your hand, as Pompey does." "Perhaps you would have us climb a tree!"
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"The first bond of society is marriage."
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"Nature has inclined us to love men."
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"Pleasure blinds (so to speak) the eyes of the mind, and has no fellowship with virtue."
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"A perverse temper and fretful disposition will make any state of life whatsoever unhappy."
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"The eyes, like sentinels, hold the highest place in the body. [Lat., Oculi, tanquam, speculatores, altissimum locum obtinent.]"
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"The judgment of posterity is truer, because it is free from envy and malevolence."
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"We must not say that every mistake is a foolish one."
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"It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity."
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"Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest."
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"Hatred is settled anger."
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"Religion is the pious worship of God."
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"These (literary) studies are the food of youth, and consolation of age; they adorn prosperity, and are the comfort and refuge of adversity; they are pleasant at home, and are no incumbrance abroad; they accompany us at night, in our travels, and in our rural retreats."
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"It is generally said, "Past labors are pleasant," Euripides says, for you all know the Greek verse, "The recollection of past labors is pleasant." [Lat., Vulgo enim dicitur, Jucundi acti labores: nec male Euripides: concludam, si potero, Latine: Graecum enim hunc versum nostis omnes: Suavis laborum est proeteritorum memoria."
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