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There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.

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I Have often thought if the minds of men were laid open, we should see but little difference between that of the wise man and that of the fool.
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This not in mortals to command success, but we’ll do more, Sempronius, we’ll deserve it.
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Mankind are more indebted to industry than ingenuity; the gods set up their favors at a price, and industry is the purchaser.
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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
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The great difference is, that the first knows how to pick and cull his thoughts for conversation, by suppressing some, and communicating others; whereas the other lets them all indifferently fly out in words.
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I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.
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The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
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Our disputants put me in mind of the cuttlefish that, when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens the water about him till he becomes invisible.
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Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed.
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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
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There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
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Let freedom never perish in your hands.
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A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
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Look what a little vain dust we are!
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It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.
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