"Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason."
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"The happiest end of life is this: when the mind and the other senses being unimpaired, the same nature which put it together takes asunder her own work."
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"Mathematics is an obscure field, an abstruse science, complicated and exact; yet so many have attained perfection in it that we might conclude almost anyone who seriously applied himself would achieve a measure of success."
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"Fortune, not wisdom, rules lives."
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"I hope that the memory of our friendship will be everlasting."
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"I speak of that learning which wakes us acquainted with the boundless extent of nature, and the universe, and which even while we remain in this world, discovers to us both heaven, earth, and sea."
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"Diligence which, as it avails in all things, is also of the utmost moment in pleading causes. Diligence is to be particularly cultivated by us; it is to be constantly exerted; it is capable of effecting almost everything."
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"For my own part, I had rather be old only a short time than be old before I really am so."
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"Everything that thou reprovest in another, thou must most carefully avoid in thyself. [Lat., Omnia quae vindicaris in altero, tibi ipsi vehementer fugienda sunt.]"
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"Men in no way approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to men. [Lat., Homines ad deos nulla re propius accedunt, quam salutem hominibus dando.]"
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"Silent enim leges inter arma (Laws are silent in times of war)."
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"The forehead is the gate of the mind."
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"In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought."
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"There are some duties we owe even to those who have wronged us. There is, after all, a limit to retribution and punishment."
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"Any man may make a mistake; none but a fool will stick to it. Second thoughts are best as the proverb says. [Lat., Cujusvis hominis est errare; nullius, nisi insipientis, in errore perseverae. Posteriores enim cogitationes (ut aiunt) sapientiores solent esse.]"
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"No grief is so acute but time ameliorates it."
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"Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed (from friendship). [Lat., Assentatio, vitiorum adjutrix, procul amoveatur.]"
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"What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth? [Lat., Quod enim munus reiplicae afferre majus, meliusve possumus, quam si docemus atque erudimus juventutem?]"
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"Let reason govern desire."
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"The popular breeze - Aura popularis"
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