"We are all sinful. Therefore whatever we blame in another we shall find in our own bosoms."
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"Economy is in itself a great source of revenue."
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"Refrain from following the example of those whose craving is for attention, not their own improvement."
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"It is easy enough to arouse in a listener a desire for what is honorable; for in every one of us nature has laid the foundations or sown the seeds of the virtues. We are born to them all, all of us, and when a person comes along with the necessary stimulus, then those qualities of the personality are awakened, so to speak, from their slumber."
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"The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience."
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"The most onerous slavery is to be a slave to oneself."
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"The foremost art of Kings is the power to endure hatred."
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"A good mind is a lord of a kingdom."
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"So live with an inferior as you would wish a superior to live with you."
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"Men's language is as their lives."
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"What difference does it make, after all, what your position in life is if you dislike it yourself?"
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"To make another person hold his tongue, be you first silent."
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"I require myself not to be equal to the best, but to be better then the bad."
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"Our minds must relax: they will rise better and keener after rest. Just as you must not force fertile farmland, as uninterrupted productivity will soon exhaust it, so constant effort will sap our mental vigour, while a short period of rest and relaxation will restore our powers. Unremitting effort leads to a kind of mental dullness and lethargy."
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"You should keep on learning as long as there is something you do not know."
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"Whatever we give to the wretched, we lend to fortune."
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"A man who has taken your time recognises no debt; yet it is the one he can never repay."
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"Let me therefore live as if every moment were to be my last."
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"It is not how many books thou hast, but how good; careful reading profiteth, while that which is full of variety delighteth."
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"Some laws, though unwritten, are more firmly established than all written laws."
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