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"Can there be greater foolishness than the respect you pay to people collectively when you despise them individually?"
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"Let us drink for the replenishment of our strength, not for our sorrow"
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"Friendship is nothing else than entire fellow feeling as to all things human and divine with mutual good-will and affection; and I doubt whether anything better than this, wisdom alone excepted, has been given to man."
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"To give and receive advice - the former with freedom, and yet without bitterness, the latter with patience and without irritation - is peculiarly appropriate to geniune friendship."
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"These studies are a spur to the young, a delight to the old: an ornament in prosperity, a consoling refuge in adversity; they are pleasure for us at home, and no burden abroad; they stay up with us at night, they accompany us when we travel, they are with us in our country visits."
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"Hours and days and months and years go by; the past returns no more, and what is to be we cannot know; but whatever the time gives us in which we live, we should therefore be content."
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"There is in superstition a senseless fear of God."
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"The last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place. [Lat., Supremus ille dies non nostri extinctionem sed commutationem affert loci.]"
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"To some extent I liken slavery to death."
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"I prefer silent prudence to loquacious folly. [Lat., Malo indisertam prudentiam, quam loquacem stultitiam.]"
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"The soil of their native land is dear to all the hearts of mankind."
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"I look upon the pleasure we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life."
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"To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbial disgrace. [Lat., Culpa enim illa, bis ad eundem, vulgari reprehensa proverbio est.]"
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"For there is but one essential justice which cements society, and one law which establishes this justice. This law is right reason, which is the true rule of all commandments and prohibitions. Whoever neglects this law, whether written or unwritten, is necessarily unjust and wicked."
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"No man in his senses will dance."
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"Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge."
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"It is a great thing to know your vices."
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"History illumes reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life"
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"Patria est communis omnium parens. Our country is the common parent of all."
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