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"The beauty of the world and the orderly arrangement of everything celestial makes us confess that there is an excellent and eternal nature, which ought to be worshiped and admired by all mankind."
"Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so."
"Not to have knowledge of what happened before you were born is to be condemned to live as a child."
"There is a difference between justice and consideration in one's relations to one's fellow men. It is the function of justice not to do wrong to one's fellow men of considerateness, not to wound their feelings."
"History is truely the witness of times past, the light of truth, the life of memory, the teacher of life, the messenger of antiquity."
"Sed nescio quo modo nihil tam absurde dici potest quod non dicatur ab aliquo philosphorum. (There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.)"
"Let a man practise the profession he best knows. [Lat., Quam quisque novit artem, in hac se exerceat.]"
"The injuries that befall us unexpectedly are less severe than those which are deliberately anticipated."
"Friendship, on the other hand, serves a great host of different purposes all at the same time. In whatever direction you turn, it still remains yours. No barrier can shut it out. It can never be untimely; it can never be in the way. We need friendship all the time, just as much as we need the proverbial prime necessities of life, fire and water."
"I will adhere to the counsels of good men, although misfortune and death should be the consequence."
"No sensible man (among the many things that have been written on this kind) ever imputed inconsistency to another for changing his mind. [Lat., Nemo doctus unquam (multa autem de hoc genere scripta sunt) mutationem consili inconstantiam dixit esse.]"
"Anger should never appear in awarding punishment."
"What is there that is illustrious that is not also attended by labor?"
"Of evils one should choose the least. [Lat., Ex malis eligere minima oportere.]"
"It is a strong proof of men knowing most things before birth, that when mere children they grasp innumerable facts with such speed as to show that they are not then taking them in for the first time, but are remembering and recalling them."
"The soul in sleep gives proof of its divine nature."
"The whole glory of virtue resides in activity."
"I will go further, and assert that nature without culture can often do more to deserve praise than culture without nature."
"To reduce man to the duties of his own city, and to disengage him from duties to the members of other cities, is to break the universal society of the human race."
"That, Senators, is what a favour from gangs amounts to. They refrain from murdering someone; then they boast that they have spared him!"