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Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

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For the laws are dumb in the midst of arms.

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Nor am I ashamed, as some are, to confess my ignorance of those matters with which I am unacquainted.

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If we lose affection and kindliness from our life: we lose all that gives it charm.

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Any man may make a mistake; none but a fool will stick to it. Second thoughts are best as the proverb says.

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The whole of virtue consists in its practice.

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Man is his own worst enemy.

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This wine is forty years old. It certainly doesn't show its age.

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The wise man never loses his temper.

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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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You must therefore love me, myself, and not my circumstances, if we are to be real friends.

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Rashness is the companion of youth, prudence of old age.

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To some extent I liken slavery to death.

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Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its griefs and anxieties. [Lat., Secundas res splendidiores facit amicitia, et adversas partiens communicansque leviores.]

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He removes the greatest ornament of friendship who takes away from it respect.

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If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.

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The spirit is the true self.

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Do not blame Caesar, blame the people of Rome who have so enthusiastically acclaimed and adored him and rejoiced in their loss of freedom and danced in his path and gave him triumphal processions. Blame the people who hail him when he speaks in the Forum of the 'new, wonderful good society' which shall now be Rome, interpreted to mean 'more money, more ease, more security, more living fatly at the expense of the industrious.'

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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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