"Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things."
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"All men have a feeling, that they would rather you told them a civil lie than give them a point blank refusal.... If you make a promise, the thing is still uncertain, depends on a future day, and concerns but few people; but if you refuse you alienate people to a certainty and at once, and many people too."
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"I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money. Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors."
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"When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's [children's] minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind."
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"Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education."
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"The aim of forensic oratory is to teach, to delight, to move."
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"The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory."
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"Non nobis solum nati sumus. (Not for ourselves alone are we born.)"
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"The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal."
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"The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions."
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"We can more easily avenge an injury than requite a kindness; on this account, because there is less difficulty in getting the better of the wicked than in making one's self equal with the good."
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"Courage is virtue which champions the cause of right."
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"Things perfected by nature are better than those finished by art."
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"Scurrility has no object in view but incivility; if it is uttered from feelings of petulance, it is mere abuse; if it is spoken in a joking manner, it may be considered raillery."
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"Man is his own worst enemy."
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"Within the character of the citizen, lies the welfare of the nation."
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"There is no one who can give you wiser advice than you can give yourself: you will never make a slip, if you listen to your own heart."
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"The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words."
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"Not only is there an art in knowing a thing, but also a certain art in teaching it."
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"Brevity is a great charm of eloquence."
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