"While we are postponing, life speeds by."
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"Time discovers truth. Time heals what reason cannot."
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"No one can keep a mask on long."
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"To govern was to serve, not to rule."
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"Life's like a play; it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters."
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"It is the characteristic of a weak and diseased mind to fear the unfamiliar."
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"The worst evil of all is to leave the ranks of the living before one dies."
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"He who is penitent is almost innocent."
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"Voyage, travel, and change of place impart vigor"
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"A great mind becomes a great fortune."
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"Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering."
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"We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers."
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"It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching."
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"Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool."
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"The person you are matters more than the place to which you go."
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"He, who decides a case without hearing the other side, though he decides justly, cannot be considered just."
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"We learn not in the school, but in life."
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"We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift."
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"Philosophy is the art and law of life, and it teaches us what to do in all cases, and, like good marksmen, to hit the white at any distance."
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"There is nothing the wise man does reluctantly."
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