"The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful."
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"Nothing is so contemptible as the sentiments of the mob."
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"Live for thy neighbor if thou wouldst live for thyself."
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"Let us cherish and love old age; for it is full of pleasure, if you know how to use it. The best morsel is reserved for last."
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"If virtue precede us every step will be safe."
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"If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin."
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"The evil which assails us is not in the localities we inhabit but in ourselves. We lack strength to endure the least task, being incapable of suffering pain, powerless to enjoy pleasure, impatient with everything. How many invoke death when, after having tried every sort of change, they find themselves reverting to the same sensations, unable to discover any new experience."
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"Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal."
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"Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked."
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"You have to persevere and fortify your pertinacity until the will to good becomes a disposition to good."
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"How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness."
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"As long as you live, learn how to live."
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"You will die not because you're ill, but because you're alive."
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"Before old age I took care to live well; in old age I take care to die well; but to die well is to die willingly."
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"Our posterity will wonder about our ignorance of things so plain."
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"Every journey has an end."
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"The sovereign good of man is a mind that subjects all things to itself and is itself subject to nothing; such a man's pleasures are modest and reserved, and it may be a question whether he goes to heaven, or heaven comes to him; for a good man is influenced by God Himself, and has a kind of divinity within him."
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"The things which we hold in our hands, which we see with our eyes, and which our avarice hugs, are transitory, they may be taken from us by ill luck or by violence; but a kindness lasts even after the loss of that by means of which it was bestowed; for it is a good deed, which no violence can undo."
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"Nature does not bestow virtue; to be good is an art."
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"We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life."
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