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    A bachelor's bed is the most pleasant.

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    Ability without honor is useless.

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    A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom bureaucrats so strangely resemble. I have yet to meet a bureaucrat who was not petty, dull, almost witless, crafty or stupid, an oppressor or a thief, a holder of little authority in which he delights, as a boy delights in possessing a vicious dog. Who can trust such creatures?

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    A careful physician . . . before he attempts to administer a remedy to his patient, must investigate not only the malady of the man he wishes to cure, but also his habits when in health, and his physical constitution.

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    According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.

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    A community is like the ones who govern it.

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    A dissolute and intemperate youth hands down the body to old age in a worn-out state.

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    Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

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    Advice is judged by results, not by intentions.

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    A friend is, as it were, a second self.

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    After victory, you have more enemies.

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    A good man will not lie, although it be for his profit.

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    A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

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    A home without books is a body without soul.

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    A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

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    A letter does not blush.

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    A liar is not believed even though he tell the truth.

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    A life of peace, purity and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.

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    All action is of the mind and the mirror of the mind is the face, its index the eyes.

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    All great men are partially inspired.

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    All I can do is to urge on you to regard friendship as the greatest thing in the world; for there is nothing which so fits in with our nature, or is so exactly what we want in prosperity or adversity.

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    All literature, all philosophical treatises, all the voices of antiquity are full of examples for imitation, which would all lie unseen in darkness without the light of literature.

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    All men have a feeling, that they would rather you told them a civil lie than give them a point blank refusal.... If you make a promise, the thing is still uncertain, depends on a future day, and concerns but few people; but if you refuse you alienate people to a certainty and at once, and many people too.

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    All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.

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    All the arts of refinement have mutual kinship.

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    All the arts, which have a tendency to raise man in the scale of being, have a certain common band of union, and are connected, if I may be allowed to say so, by blood-relationship with one another.

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    A man does not wonder at what he sees frequently, even though he be ignorant of the reason. If anything happens which he has not seen before, he calls it a prodigy.

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    A man of courage is also full of faith.

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    A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him.

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    A man would have no pleasures in discovering all the beauties of the universe, even in heaven itself, unless he had a partner to whom he might communicate his joys.

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    A mental stain can neither be blotted out by the passage of time nor washed away by any waters.

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    A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.

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    An acute first-class brain is the finest asset anyone can have- and, if we want to be happy, it is an asset we must exploit to the uttermost.

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    An ancient custom obtains force of nature.

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    An army abroad is of little use unless there are prudent counsels at home. [Lat., Parvi enim sunt foris arma, nisi est consilium domi.]

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    A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.

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    A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.

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    A nation can survive its fools, even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within....for the traitor appears not to be a traitor...he rots the soul of a nation...he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist.

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    An innocent man, if accused, can be acquitted; a guilty man, unless accused, cannot be condemned. It is, however, more advantageous to absolve an innocent than not to prosecute a guilty man.

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    An intemperate, disorderly youth will bring to old age, a feeble and worn-out body.

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    An old man with something of the youth in him, may feel young in mind and heart only.

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    An unjust peace is better than a just war.

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    Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.

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    Any man may make a mistake; none but a fool will stick to it. Second thoughts are best as the proverb says. [Lat., Cujusvis hominis est errare; nullius, nisi insipientis, in errore perseverae. Posteriores enim cogitationes (ut aiunt) sapientiores solent esse.]

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    Any man may make a mistake; none but a fool will stick to it. Second thoughts are best as the proverb says.

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    Anyone may fairly seek his own advantage, but no one has a right to do so at another's expense.

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    Anyone who has got a book collection/library and a garden wants for nothing.

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    A perverse temper and fretful disposition will make any state of life whatsoever unhappy.

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    A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.

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    Apollo, sacred guard of earth's true core, Whence first came frenzied, wild prophetic word.