A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.
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Because the soul has such deep roots in personal and social life and its values run so contrary to modern concerns, caring for the soul may well turn out to be a radical act, a challenge to accepted norms.
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A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.
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Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.
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No living creature is naturally greedy, except from fear of want – or in the case of human beings, from vanity, the notion that you’re better than people if you can display more superfluous property than they can.
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Oh! blame not the bard.
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I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake.
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Two evils, greed and faction are the destruction of all justice.
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What is deferred is not avoided.
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They have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters.
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Nobody owns anything but everyone is rich – for what greater wealth can there be than cheerfulness, peace of mind, and freedom from anxiety?
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Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all.
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Instead of inflicting these horrible punishments, it would be far more to the point to provide everyone with some means of livelihood, so that nobody’s under the frightful necessity of becoming, first a thief, and then a corpse.
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Those among them that have not received our religion do not fright any from it, and use none ill that goes over to it, so that all the while I was there one man was only punished on this occasion.
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And peradventure we have more cause to thank Him for our loss than for our winning; for His wisdom better seeth what is good for us than we do ourselves.
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The times are never so bad but that a good man can make shift to live in them.
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Every man has by the law of nature a right to such a waste portion of the earth as is necessary for his subsistence.
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What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.
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