"He has committed the crime who profits by it."
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"It is not the man who has little, but he who desires more, that is poor."
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"The gladiator is formulating his plan in the arena or essentially Too late."
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"It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it."
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"Every reign must submit to a greater reign."
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"Let us ask what is best - not what is customary. Let us love temperance - let us be just - let us refrain from bloodshed."
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"Nothing deters a good man from doing what is honourable."
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"There is no genius free from some tincture of madness"
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"That grief is light which can take counsel."
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"If you judge, investigate."
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"Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute."
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"I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land."
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"How many discoveries are reserved for the ages to come when our memory shall be no more, for this world of ours contains matter for investigation for all generations."
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"Drunkenness is nothing but a self-induced state of insanity."
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"There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn't just fall to a person's lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn't go to anyone other than oneself to find her."
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"No one should feel pride in anything that is not his own."
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"The fearful face usually betrays great guilt."
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"Let the man, who would be grateful, think of repaying a kindness, even while receiving it."
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"The voice of flattery affects us after it has ceased, just as after a concert men find some agreeable air ringing in their ears to the exclusion of all serious business."
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"It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another."
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