"Anger turns the mind out of doors and bolts the entrance."
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"Poverty is dishonorable, not in itself, but when it is a proof of laziness, intemperance, luxury, and carelessness; whereas in a person that is temperate, industrious, just and valiant, and who uses all his virtues for the public good, it shows a great and lofty mind."
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"To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days."
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"He who cheats with an oath acknowledges that he is afraid of his enemy, but that he thinks little of God."
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"Nothing can produce so great a serenity of life as a mind free from guilt and kept untainted, not only from actions, but purposes that are wicked. By this means the soul will be not only unpolluted but also undisturbed. The fountain will run clear and unsullied."
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"Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends."
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"It is not histories I am writing, but lives; and in the most glorious deeds there is not always an indication of virtue or vice, indeed a small thing like a phrase or a jest often makes a greater revelation of a character than battles where thousands die."
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"They fought indeed and were slain, but it was to maintain the luxury and the wealth of other men."
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"I see the cure is not worth the pain."
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"To the Greeks, the supreme function of music was to "praise the gods and educate the youth". In Egypt... Initiatory music was heard only in Temple rites because it carried the vibratory rhythms of other worlds and of a life beyond the mortal."
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"Rest is the sweet sauce of labor."
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"Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech."
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"Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage."
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"It is wise to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well."
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"He (Cato) never gave his opinion in the Senate upon any other point whatever, without adding these words, "And, in my opinion Carthage should be destroyed." ["Delenda est Carthago."]"
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"The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education."
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"A lover's soul lives in the body of his mistress."
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"Character is long-standing habit."
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"Nature and wisdom never are at strife."
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"We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away."
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