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Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.

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I know not any season of life that is past more agreeably than virtuous old age.

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The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.

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

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If the oarsmen of a fast-moving ship suddenly cease to row, the suspension of the driving force of the oars doesn't prevent the vessel from continuing to move on its course. And with a speech it is much the same. After he has finished reciting the document, the speaker will still be able to maintain the same tone without a break, borrowing its momentum and impulse from the passage he has just read out.

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Nothing is more disgraceful than insincerity.

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God's law is 'right reason.' When perfectly understood it is called 'wisdom.' When applied by government in regulating human relations it is called 'justice.

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Endless money forms the sinews of war. [Lat., Nervi belli pecunia infinita.]

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Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.

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Yield, ye arms, to the toga; to civic praise, ye laurels.

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It is a man's own dishonesty, his crimes, his wickedness, and boldness, that takes away from him soundness of mind; these are the furies, these the flames and firebrands, of the wicked.

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The consciousness of good intention is the greatest solace of misfortunes.

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In doubtful cases the more liberal interpretation must always be preferred.

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These (literary) studies are the food of youth, and consolation of age; they adorn prosperity, and are the comfort and refuge of adversity; they are pleasant at home, and are no incumbrance abroad; they accompany us at night, in our travels, and in our rural retreats.

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Do nothing twice over.

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The hours pass and the days and the months and the years, and the past time never returns.

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Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.

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Our generosity never should exceed our abilities.

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It is difficult to remember all, and ungracious to omit any.

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No one could ever meet death for his country without the hope of immortality.

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