"Luck never made a man wise."
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"Nothing is ours except time."
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"Be harsh with yourself at times."
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"The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and misery."
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"The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin."
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"No man ever became wise by chance."
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"The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The fault is not in the riches, but the disposition."
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"Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody."
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"Precepts are like seeds; they are little things which do much good; if the mind which receives them has a disposition, it must not be doubted that his part contributes to the generation, and adds much to that which has been collected."
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"Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders."
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"Death's the discharge of our debt of sorrow."
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"A man's ability cannot possibly be of one sort and his soul of another. If his soul be well-ordered, serious and restrained, his ability also is sound and sober. Conversely, when the one degenerates, the other is contaminated."
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"Modesty forbids what the law does not."
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"To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none"
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"Virtue is that perfect good, which is the complement of a happy life; the only immortal thing that belongs to mortality."
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"What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law."
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"Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure."
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"One crime has to be concealed by another."
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"Money does all things for reward. Some are pious and honest as long as they thrive upon it, but if the devil himself gives better wages, they soon change their party."
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"The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live."
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