"Like associates with like."
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"Let the punishment be equal with the offence. [Lat., Noxiae poena par esto.]"
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"They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper."
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"Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either."
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"A friend is, as it were, a second self."
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"Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain."
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"He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason."
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"I prefer silent prudence to loquacious folly."
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"A liar is not believed even though he tell the truth."
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"As I breathe, I hope."
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"Modesty is that feeling by which honorable shame acquires a valuable and lasting authority."
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"Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to continue always a child."
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"Things sacred should not only be touched with the hands, but unviolated in thought. [Lat., Res sacros non modo manibus attingi, sed ne cogitatione quidem violari fas fuit.]"
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"The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed."
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"This wine is forty years old. It certainly doesn't show its age."
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"Habit is, as it were, a second nature. [Lat., Consuetudo quasi altera natura effici.]"
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"A war is never undertaken by the ideal state, except in defense of its honor or its safety."
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"It is a common saying that many pecks of salt must be eaten before the duties of friendship can be discharged."
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"The spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which can be pointed out by your finger."
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"To freemen, threats are impotent."
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