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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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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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Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.
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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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A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
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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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Honor’s a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.
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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
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Let freedom never perish in your hands.
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They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.
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Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
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When I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves,
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There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance
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There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.
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Silence is sometimes more significant and sublime than the most noble and most expressive eloquence, and is on many occasions the indication of a great mind.
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To this end, nothing is to be more carefully consulted than plainness. In a lady’s attire this is the single excellence; for to be what some people call fine, is the same vice, in that case, as to be florid is in writing or speaking.
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There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
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