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I like myself, but I won't say I'm as handsome as the bull that kidnapped Europa.

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On the subject of the nature of the gods, the first question is Do the gods exist or do the not? It is difficult you may say to deny that they exist. I would agree if we were arguing the matter in a public assembly, but in a private discussion of this kind, it is perfectly easy to do so.

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I depart from life as from an inn, and not as from my home. [Lat., Ex vita discedo, tanquam ex hospitio, non tanquam ex domo.]

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We must not say that every mistake is a foolish one.

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What is permissible is not always honorable.

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The authors who affect contempt for a name in the world put their names to the books which they invite the world to read.

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Some men make a womanish complaint that it is a great misfortune to die before our time. I would ask what time? Is it that of Nature? But she, indeed, has lent us life, as we do a sum of money, only no certain day is fixed for payment. What reason then to complain if she demands it at pleasure, since it was on this condition that you received it.

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The world has not yet learned the riches of frugality.

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Everyone has his besetting sin.

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That which is usually called dotage is not the weak point of all old men, but only of such as are distinguished by their levity.

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Everyone cleaves to the doctrine he has happened upon, as to a rock against which he has been thrown by tempest.

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Superstition is an unreasoning fear of God.

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Through ignorance of what is good and what is bad, the life of men is greatly perplexed.

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Our minds possess by nature an insatiable desire to know the truth.

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Let a man practice the profession which he best knows.

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Advice is judged by results, not by intentions.

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Virtue and decency are so nearly related that it is difficult to separate them from each other but in our imagination.

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It is fortune, not wisdom, that rules man's life.

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There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften. [Lat., Nullus dolor est quem non longinquitas temporis minuat ac molliat.]

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No sensible man ever imputes inconsistency to another for changing his minds.

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