"That which is usually called dotage is not the weak point of all old men, but only of such as are distinguished by their levity."
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"In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honor, command, power, and glory."
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"Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law."
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"If a man could mount to Heaven and survey the mighty universe, his admiration of its beauties would be much diminished unless he had someone to share in his pleasure."
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"The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due."
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"Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak."
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"The sinews of war are infinite money."
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"What is becoming is honest, and whatever is honest must always be becoming."
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"Care must be taken that the punishment does not exceed the offence."
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"Victory is by nature insolent and haughty."
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"Nothing is more praiseworthy, nothing more suited to a great and illustrious man than placability and a merciful disposition."
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"Guilt is present in the very hesitation, even though the deed be not committed."
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"Friendship is infinitely better than kindness."
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"Rashness attends youth, as prudence does old age."
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"Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute."
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"I am much beholden to old age, which has increased my eagerness for conversation in proportion as it has lessened my appetites of hunger and thirst."
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"Because all the sick do not recover, therefore medicine is not an art."
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"Frugality includes all the other virtues."
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"That which leads us to the performance of duty by offering pleasure as its reward, is not virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue. [Lat., Nam quae voluptate, quasi mercede aliqua, ad officium impellitur, ea non est virtus sed fallax imitatio simulatioque virtutis.]"
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"Our country is wherever we are well off. [Lat., Patria est, ubicunque est bene.]"
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