"It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything."
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"The flatterer's object is to please in everything he does; whereas the true friend always does what is right, and so often gives pleasure, often pain, not wishing the latter, but not shunning it either, if he deems it best."
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"No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune."
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"After the battle in Pharsalia, when Pompey was fled, one Nonius said they had seven eagles left still, and advised to try what they would do. "Your advice," said Cicero, "were good if we were to fight jackdaws."
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"Demosthenes overcame and rendered more distinct his inarticulate and stammering pronunciation by speaking with pebbles in his mouth."
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"Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow."
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"The poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others."
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"Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks."
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"God is the brave man's hope, and not the coward's excuse."
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"The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil."
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"A good man will take care of his horses and dogs, not only while they are young, but when old and past service."
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"To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult."
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"It is no disgrace not to be able to do everything; but to undertake, or pretend to do, what you are not made for, is not only shameful, but extremely troublesome and vexatious."
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"There are two sentences inscribed upon the Ancient oracle... "Know thyself" and "Nothing too much"; and upon these all other precepts depend."
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"Philosophy finds talkativeness a disease very difficult and hard to cure. For its remedy, conversation, requires hearers: but talkative people hear nobody, for they are ever prating. And the first evil this inability to keep silence produces is an inability to listen."
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"The talkative listen to no one, for they are ever speaking. And the first evil that attends those who know not to be silent is that they hear nothing."
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"If we traverse the world, it is possible to find cities without walls, without letters, without kings, without wealth, without coin, without schools and theatres; but a city without a temple, or that practiseth not worship, prayer, and the like, no one ever saw."
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"The obligations of law and equity reach only to mankind; but kindness and beneficence should be extended to the creatures of every species, and these will flow from the breast of a true man, as streams that issue from the living fountain."
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"Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little."
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"For the wise man, every day is a festival."
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