"We are more sensible of what is done against custom than against nature."
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"Silence is an answer to a wise man."
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"Time which diminishes all things increases understanding for the aging."
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"Oh, what a world full of pain we create, for a little taste upon the tongue."
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"Evidence of trust begets trust, and love is reciprocated by love."
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"Among real friends there is no rivalry or jealousy of one another, but they are satisfied and contented alike whether they are equal or one of them is superior."
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"It is the admirer of himself, and not the admirer of virtue, that thinks himself superior to others."
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"As Meander says, "For our mind is God;" and as Heraclitus, "Man's genius is a deity.""
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"What All The World Knows Water is the principle, or the element, of things. All things are water."
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"Of the land which the Romans gained by conquest from their neighbours, part they sold publicly, and turned the remainder into common; this common land they assigned to such of the citizens as were poor and indigent, for which they were to pay only a small acknowledgment into the public treasury. But when the wealthy men began to offer larger rents, and drive the poorer people out, it was enacted by law that no person whatever should enjoy more than five hundred acres of ground."
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"The man who is completely wise and virtuous has no need of glory, except so far as it disposes and eases his way to action by the greater trust that it procures him."
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"The superstitious man wishes he did not believe in gods, as the atheist does not, but fears to disbelieve in them."
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"Democritus said, words are but the shadows of actions."
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"The man who first brought ruin upon the Roman people was he who pampered them by largesses and amusements."
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"The new king [Alexander the Great] should perform acts so important and glorious as would make the poets and musicians of future ages labour and sweat to describe and celebrate him."
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"Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord."
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"A warrior carries his shield for the sake of the entire line."
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"By the study of their biographies, we receive each man as a guest into our minds, and we seem to understand their character as the result of a personal acquaintance, because we have obtained from their acts the best and most important means of forming an opinion about them. "What greater pleasure could'st thou gain than this?" What more valuable for the elevation of our own character?"
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"When another is asked a question, take special care not to interrupt to answer it yourself."
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"Wickedness is a wonderfully diligent architect of misery, of shame, accompanied with terror, and commotion, and remorse, and endless perturbation."
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