"There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness."
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"We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names."
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"Yield, ye arms, to the toga; to civic praise, ye laurels."
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"What society does to its children, so will its children do to society."
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"We should be careful that our benevolence does not exceed our means."
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"Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinion, most praiseworthy: not that the public eye should be entirely avoided, for good actions desire to be placed in the light; but notwithstanding this, the greatest theater for virtue is conscience."
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"I am of opinion that there is nothing so beautiful but that there is something still more beautiful, of which this is the mere image and expression,--a something which can neither be perceived by the eyes, the ears, nor any of the senses; we comprehend it merely in the imagination."
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"Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body."
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"Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body."
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"The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends."
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"The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil."
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"You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself."
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"Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?"
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"Virtue and decency are so nearly related that it is difficult to separate them from each other but in our imagination."
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"Whatever is graceful is virtuous, and whatever is virtuous is graceful."
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"Any man may make a mistake; none but a fool will stick to it. Second thoughts are best as the proverb says."
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"There never was a great soul that did not have some divine inspiration."
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"I criticize by creation - not by finding fault."
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"We forget our pleasures, we remember our sufferings."
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"Extreme justice is extreme injustice."
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