"Nor do I regret that I have lived, since I have so lived that I think I was not born in vain, and I quit life as if it were an inn, not a home."
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". . . for until that God who rules all the region of the sky . . . has freed you from the fetters of your body, you cannot gain admission here. Men were created with the understanding that they were to look after that sphere called Earth, which you see in the middle of the temple. Minds have been given to them out of the eternal fires you call fixed stars and planets, those spherical solids which, quickened with divine minds, journey through their circuits and orbits with amazing speed."
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"For just as some women are said to be handsome though without adornment, so this subtle manner of speech, though lacking in artificial graces, delights us."
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"It is not a virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue, when we are led to the performance of duty by pleasure as its recompense."
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"Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so."
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"Let us assume that entertainment is the sole end of reading; even so I think you would hold that no mental employment is so broadening to the sympathies or so enlightening to the understanding. Other pursuits belong not to all times, all ages, all conditions; but this gives stimulus to our youth and diversion to our old age; this adds a charm to success, and offers a haven of consolation to failure. Through the night-watches, on all our journeyings, and in our hours of ease, it is our unfailing companion."
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"I do not now so much as wish to have the Strength of Youth again that I wish'd in Youth for the Strength of an Ox or Elephant. For it is our Business only to make the best Use we can of the Powers granted us by Nature."
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"Who can love the man he fears. or by who he thinks he is himself feared?"
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"Virtue is increased by the smile of approval; and the love of renown is the greatest incentive to honourable acts."
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"Time puts an end to speculation in opinions, and confirms the laws of nature."
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"Summer lasts not for ever; seasons succeed each other."
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"Pleasant is the recollection of dangers past."
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"Our liberality should not exceed our ability."
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"Nothing is difficult in the eyes of a lover."
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"Nulla (enim) res tantum ad dicendum proficit, quantum scriptio Nothing so much assists learning as writing down what we wish to remember."
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"We must be ever on the search for some persons whom we shall love and who will love us in return. If good will and affection are taken away, every joy is taken from life."
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"I am a Roman citizen."
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"If wisdom be attainable, let us not only win but enjoy it."
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"For many wish not so much to be, as to seem to be, endowed with real virtue."
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"Thrift is a great revenue."
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