"It is a pleasure appropriate to man, for him to save a fellow-man, and gratitude is acquired in no better way."
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"Nothing retains its form; new shapes from old. Nature, the great inventor, ceaselessly contrives. In all creation, be assured, there is no death - no death, but only change and innovation; what we men call birth is but a different new beginning; death is but to cease to be the same. Perhaps this may have moved to that, and that to this, yet still the sum of things remains the same."
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"I grabbed a pile of dust, and holding it up, foolishly asked for as many birthdays as the grains of dust, I forgot to ask that they be years of youth."
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"Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses."
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"Happy is he who dares courageously to defend what he loves."
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""Gutta cavat lapidem." (Dripping water carves a stone.)"
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"Riches, the incentives to evil, are dug out of the earth."
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"The rose is often found near the nettle."
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"The whole earth is the brave man's country. [Lat., Omne solum forti patria est.]"
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"Some wounds grow worse beneath the surgeon's hand; Better that they were not touched at all."
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"Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel."
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"Our native land charms us with inexpressible sweetness, and never never allows us to forget that we belong to it. [Lat., Nescio qua natale solum dulcedine captos Ducit, et immemores non sinit esse sui.]"
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"If you give up your quiet life, the bow of Cupid will lose its power."
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"Use the occasion, for it passes swiftly."
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"Tis best to be silent in a bad cause."
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"Thanks are justly due for things got without purchase. [Lat., Gratia pro rebus merito debetur inemtis.]"
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"Against the bold, daring is unsafe."
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"Jupiter has no leisure to attend to little things."
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"Alas! How difficult it is to prevent the countenance from betraying guilt!"
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"A field becomes exhausted by constant tillage."
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