"Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth."
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"The proof of a well-trained mind is that it rejoices in which is good and grieves at the opposite."
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""What greater gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?""
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"Always the same thing."
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"Nothing is so great an adversary to those who make it their business to please as expectation."
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"Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook."
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"The chief recommendation is modesty, then dutiful conduct toward parents, then affection for kindred."
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"For hardly any man dances when sober, unless he is insane. Nor does he dance while alone, nor at a respectable and moderate party. Dancing is the final phase of a wild party with fancy decorations and a multitude of delights."
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"It is the stain and disgrace of the age to envy virtue, and to be anxious to crush the very flower of dignity."
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"For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends."
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"In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names."
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"People do not understand what a great revenue economy is."
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"There is nothing better fitted to delight the reader than change of circumstances and varieties of fortune."
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"He who hangs on the errors of the ignorant multitude, must not be counted among great men."
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"The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish."
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"Exile is terrible to those who have, as it were, a circumscribed habitation; but not to those who look upon the whole globe but as one city."
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"Everyone cleaves to the doctrine he has happened upon, as to a rock against which he has been thrown by tempest."
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"To be endowed with strength by nature, to be actuated by the powers of the mind, and to have a certain spirit almost divine infused into you."
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"Nothing is more disgraceful than insincerity."
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"No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest god. [Lat., Fortis vero, dolorem summum malum judicans; aut temperans, voluptatem summum bonum statuens, esse certe nullo modo potest.]"
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