"Speech devoted to truth should be straightforward and plain"
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"The language of truth is unvarnished enough."
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"God has given some gifts to the whole human race, from which no one is excluded."
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"Some lack the fickleness to live as they wish and just live as they have begun."
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"On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown."
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"An unpopular rule is never long maintained."
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"The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past."
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"Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again."
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"Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes."
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"Misfortunes, in fine, cannot be avoided; but they may be sweetened, if not overcome, and our lives made happy by philosophy."
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"It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power."
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"How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!"
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"When thou hast profited so much that thou respectest even thyself, thou mayst let go thy tutor."
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"Speech is the index of the mind."
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"Every one has time if he likes. Business runs after nobody: people cling to it of their own free will and think that to be busy is a proof of happiness."
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"What is true belongs to me!"
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"A friend always loves, but he who loves is not always a friend."
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"Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall."
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"War I abhor, and yet how sweet The sound along the marching street Of drum and fife, and I forget Wet eyes of widows, and forget Broken old mothers, and the whole Dark butchery without a soul."
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"It was the saying of a great man, that if we could trace our descents, we should find all slaves to come from princes, and all princes from slaves; and fortune has turned all things topsy-turvy in a long series of revolutions; beside, for a man to spend his life in pursuit of a title, that serves only when he dies to furnish out an epitaph, is below a wise man's business."
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