"Physicians, when the cause of disease is discovered, consider that the cure is discovered."
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"That folly of old age which is called dotage is peculiar to silly old men, not to age itself."
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"Friendship is the only point in human affairs concerning the benefit of which all, with one voice, agree."
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"The well-known old remark of Cato, who used to wonder how two soothsayers could look one another in the face without laughing."
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"Nature abhors annihilation. [Lat., Ab interitu naturam abhorrere.]"
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"The celestial order and the beauty of the universe compel me to admit that there is some excellent and eternal Being, who deserves the respect and homage of men"
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"The leaders should all relate to this principle: the governed must be as happy as possible."
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"I wonder that a soothsayer doesn't laugh whenever he sees another soothsayer."
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"O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!"
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"Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money."
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"The best Armour of Old Age is a well spent life preceding it; a Life employed in the Pursuit of useful Knowledge, in honourable Actions and the Practice of Virtue; in which he who labours to improve himself from his Youth, will in Age reap the happiest Fruits of them; not only because these never leave a Man, not even in the extremest Old Age; but because a Conscience bearing Witness that our Life was well-spent, together with the Remembrance of past good Actions, yields an unspeakable Comfort to the Soul"
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"This, therefore, is a law not found in books, but written on the fleshly tablets of the heart, which we have not learned from man, received or read, but which we have caught up from Nature herself, sucked in and imbibed; the knowledge of which we were not taught, but for which we were made; we received it not by education, but by intuition."
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"Nature loves nothing solitary, and always reaches out to something, as a support, which ever in the sincerest friend is most delightful."
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"My precept to all who build, is, that the owner should be an ornament to the house, and not the house to the owner."
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"But as to the affection which anyone may have for us, it is the first demand of duty that we do most for him who loves us most; but we should measure affection, not like youngsters, by the ardour of its passion, but rather by its strength and constancy."
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"Our thoughts are free."
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"Aristoteles quidem ait: 'Omnes ingeniosos melancholicos esse.' Aristotle says that all men of genius are melancholy."
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"For while we are enclosed in these confinements of the body, we perform as a kind of duty the heavy task of necessity; for the soul from heaven has been cast down from its dwelling on high and sunk, as it were, into the earth, a place just the opposite to godlike nature and eternity. But I believe that the immortal gods have sown souls in human bodies so there might exist beings to guard the world and after contemplating the order of heaven, might imitate it by their moderation and steadfastness in life."
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"So it may well be believed that when I found him taking a complete holiday, with a vast supply of books at command, he had the air of indulging in a literary debauch, if the term may be applied to so honorable an occupation."
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"Apollo, sacred guard of earth's true core, Whence first came frenzied, wild prophetic word."
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