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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 noting truly valuable which can be purchased without pains and labor. The gods have set a price upon every real and noble pleasure.
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A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
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On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, and from your judgment must expect my fate.
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Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.
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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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There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.
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There is something very sublime, though very fanciful, in Plato’s description of the Supreme Being,–that truth is His body and light His shadow.
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It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.
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The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
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A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
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When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view I’m lost, in wonder, love and praise.
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Look what a little vain dust we are!
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I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
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