"The man who can be compelled knows not how to die."
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"Without an adversary prowess shrivels. We see how great and efficient it really is only when it shows by endurance what it is capable of."
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"The Germans, a race eager for war."
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"Many men provoke others to overreach them by excessive suspicion; their extraordinary distrust in some sort justifies the deceit."
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"Death takes us piecemeal, not at a gulp."
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"Such is the blindness, nay the insanity of mankind, that some men are driven to death by the fear of it."
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"On entering a temple we assume all signs of reverence. How much more reverent then should we be before the heavenly bodies, the stars, the very nature of God!"
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"Do what you should, not what you may."
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"Chance makes a plaything of a man's life."
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"What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves."
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"The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom - that deed and word should be in accord."
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"We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can!"
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"It is a proof of nobility of mind to despise injuries."
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"Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity."
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"Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind."
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"It is within the power of every man to live his life nobly, but of no man to live forever. Yet so many of us hope that life will go on forever, and so few aspire to live nobly."
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"The young man must store up, the old man must use."
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"He sins not, who is not wilfully a sinner."
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"Those things which make the infernal regions terrible, the darkness, the prison, the river of flaming fire, the judgment seat, are all a fable, with which the poets amuse themselves, and by them agitate us with vain terrors."
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"No book can be so good, as to be profitable when negligently read."
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