"There is no place more delightful than home."
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"There is no place more delightful than home."
"The more virtuous any man is, the less easily does he suspect others to be vicious."
"The strictest law often causes the most serious wrong"
"The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend."
"While the sick man has life, there is hope."
"The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured."
"The face is a picture of the mind with the eyes as its interpreter."
"Laws are silent in time of war."
"Favours out of place I regard as positive injuries."
"He who has once deviated from the truth, usually commits perjury with as little scruple as he would tell a lie."
"Thrift is of great revenue."
"The swan is not without cause dedicated to Apollo, because foreseeing his happiness in death, he dies with singing and pleasure."
"They are, all of them, born with raging fanaticism in their hearts, just as the Bretons and the Germans are born with blond hair. I would not be in the least bit surprised if these people would not some day become deadly to the human race."
"A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation."
"He has no worse enemy than himself."
"The diseases of the mind are more and more destructive than those of the body. [Lat., Morbi perniciores pluresque animi quam corporis.]"
"Nothing contributes to the entertainment of the reader more, than the change of times and the vicissitudes of fortune."
"The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to human affairs."
"Those who do not know history will forever remain children"
"The first duty of man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth."