"Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty."
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"No man was ever great without divine inspiration. [Lat., Nemo vir magnus aliquo afflatu divino unquam fuit.]"
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"Life is short, but art lives forever."
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"The foundations of justice are that on one shall suffer wrong; then, that the public good be promoted."
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"Not to know what happened before you were born is to be a child forever. For what is the time of a man, except it be interwoven with that memory of ancient things of a superior age?"
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"Secret enmities are more to be feared than open ones."
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"It is besides necessary that whoever is brave should be a man of great soul."
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"This is a proof of a well-trained mind, to rejoice in what is good and to grieve at the opposite."
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"A careful physician . . . before he attempts to administer a remedy to his patient, must investigate not only the malady of the man he wishes to cure, but also his habits when in health, and his physical constitution."
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"Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its griefs and anxieties. [Lat., Secundas res splendidiores facit amicitia, et adversas partiens communicansque leviores.]"
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"For to me every sort of peace with the citizens seemed to be of more service than civil war."
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"Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift?"
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"Who doesn't know that the first law of history is not to dare to say anything false, and the second is not to refrain from saying anything true?"
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"If I am mistaken in my opinion that the human soul is immortal, I willingly err; nor would I have this pleasant error extorted from me; and if, as some minute philosophers suppose, death should deprive me of my being, I need not fear the raillery of those pretended philosophers when they are no more."
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"The office of liberality consisteth in giving with judgment."
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"No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest good."
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"Philosophy is true mother of the arts [of science]."
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"To disregard what the world thinks of us is not only arrogant but utterly shameless. [Lat., Negligere quid de se quisque sentiat, non solum arrogantis est, sed etiam omnino dissoluti.]"
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"The habit of arguing in support of atheism, whether it be done from conviction or in pretense, is a wicked and impious practice."
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"What is dishonestly got vanishes in profligacy."
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