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What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us.

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For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others.

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Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.

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It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

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The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

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Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.

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To live is to think.

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Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

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The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.

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Laws should be interpreted in a liberal sense so that their intention may be preserved.

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One who sees the Supersoul accompanying the individual soul in all bodies and who understands that neither the soul nor the Supersoul is ever destroyed, actually sees.

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He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

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Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.

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Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

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Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.

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The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.

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O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!

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Ability without honor is useless.

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Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes.

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Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

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What is permissible is not always honorable.

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What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

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The sinews of war are infinite money.

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Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.

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Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.

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The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.

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Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

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So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

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It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal.

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If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.

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We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.

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Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.

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It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

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A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others.

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True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.

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