"A good man will not lie, although it be for his profit."
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"The illustrious and noble ought to place before them certain rules and regulations, not less for their hours of leisure and relaxation than for those of business."
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"If nature does not ratify law, then all the virtues may lose their sway."
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"Inhumanity is harmful in every age. - Inhumanitas omni aetate molesta est"
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"Fire and water are not of more universal use than friendship."
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"You might as well take the sun out of the sky as friendship from life: for the immortal gods have given us nothing better or more delightful."
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"Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness."
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"In everything, without doubt, truth has the advantage over imitation."
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"What we call pleasure, and rightly so is the absence of all pain."
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"We are born poets. we become orators."
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"Everyone has his besetting sin."
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"I have sworn with my tongue, but my mind is unsworn. [Lat., Juravi lingua, mentem injuratem gero.]"
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"Nothing is so unpredictable as a throw of the dice, and yet every man who plays often will at some time or other make a Venus-cast: now and then he indeed will make it twice and even thrice in succession. Are we going to be so feebleminded then as to aver that such a thing happened by the personal intervention of Venus rather than by pure luck?"
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"I know not any season of life that is past more agreeably than virtuous old age."
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"It is not the place that maketh the person, but the person that maketh the place honorable."
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"Longing not so much to change things as to overturn them."
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"It is certain that memory contains not only philosophy, but all the arts and all that appertain to the use of life."
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"War should be undertaken in such a way as to show that its only object is peace."
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"He who suffers, remembers."
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"It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number."
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