Reason is often a more powerful persuader than gold.
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Tis hard to fight with anger, but the prudent man keeps it under control.
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Reason is often a more powerful persuader than gold.
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Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
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Poverty in a democracy is as much to be preferred to what is called prosperity under despots, as freedom is to slavery.
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It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.
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Good means not [merely] not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
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All things happen by virtue of necessity.
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Some men are masters of cities, but are enslaved to women.
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The wise man belongs to all countries, for the home of a great soul is the whole world.
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My enemy is not the man who wrongs me, but the man who means to wrong me.
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If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.
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The word is the shadow of the deed.
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Disease of the home and of the life comes about in the same way as that of the body.
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Men will cease to be fools only when they cease to be men.
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Nature and education are somewhat similar. The latter transforms man, and in so doing creates a second nature.
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Many much-learned men have no intelligence.
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The wise man’s home is the universe.
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