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The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to human affairs.

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The last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place. [Lat., Supremus ille dies non nostri extinctionem sed commutationem affert loci.]

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Men do not realize how great an income thrift is.

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The beginnings of all things are small.

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Leisure with dignity.

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It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

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We cannot employ the mind to advantage when we are filled with excessive food and drink.

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It is like taking the sun out of the world, to bereave human life of friendship.

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But in every matter the consensus of opinion among all nations is to be regarded as the law of nature.

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Let the punishment be proportionate to the offense.

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A careful physician . . . before he attempts to administer a remedy to his patient, must investigate not only the malady of the man he wishes to cure, but also his habits when in health, and his physical constitution.

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The most evident difference between man and animals is this: the beast, in as much as it is largely motivated by the senses and with little perception of the past or future, lives only for the present. But man, because he is endowed with reason by which he is able to perceive relationships, sees the causes of things, understands the reciprocal nature of cause and effect, makes analogies, easily surveys the whole course of his life, and makes the necessary preparations for its conduct.

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I shall always consider the best guesser the best prophet.

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There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.

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There is in superstition a senseless fear of God.

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He who has once deviated from the truth, usually commits perjury with as little scruple as he would tell a lie.

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No man in his senses will dance.

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If the truth were self-evident, eloquence would be unnecessary.

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Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses for which others are not even indicted.

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Virtue is uniform, conformable to reason, and of unvarying consistency; nothing can be added to it that can make it more than virtue; nothing can be taken from it, and the name of virtue be left.

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