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An old man with something of the youth in him, may feel young in mind and heart only.

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Nothing is more praiseworthy, nothing more suited to a great and illustrious man than placability and a merciful disposition.

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Nothing dries sooner than a tear.

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The home is the empire! There is no peace more delightful than one's own fireplace.

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Habit is, as it were, a second nature. [Lat., Consuetudo quasi altera natura effici.]

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I have always been of the opinion that unpopularity earned by doing what is right is not unpopularity at all, but glory.

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Persistence in a single view has never been regarded as a merit in political leaders.

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If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

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Hatred is inveterate anger.

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It is easy to distinguish between the joking that reflects good breeding and that which is coarse-the one, if aired at an apposite moment of mental relaxation, is becoming in the most serious of men, whereas the other is unworthy of any free person, if the content is indecent or the expression obscene.

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The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.

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For just as some women are said to be handsome though without adornment, so this subtle manner of speech, though lacking in artificial graces, delights us.

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History is truely the witness of times past, the light of truth, the life of memory, the teacher of life, the messenger of antiquity.

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That, Senators, is what a favour from gangs amounts to. They refrain from murdering someone; then they boast that they have spared him!

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Who doesn't know that the first law of history is not to dare to say anything false, and the second is not to refrain from saying anything true?

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Studies are the food of youth, the delight of old age; the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity; a delight at home, and no hindrance abroad; they are companions by night, and in travel, and in the country.

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This is a proof of a well-trained mind, to rejoice in what is good and to grieve at the opposite.

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Now in regard to trades and other means of livelihood, which ones are to be considered becoming to a gentleman and which ones are vulgar, we have been taught, in general, as follows. First, those means of livelihood are rejected as undesirable which incur people's ill-will, as those of tax-gatherers and usurers. Unbecoming to a gentleman, too, and vulgar are the means of livelihood of all hired workmen whom we pay for mere manual labour, not for artistic skill; for in their case the very wage they receive is a pledge of their slavery.

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Rashness attends youth, as prudence does old age.

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What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?

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