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A room without books is like a body without a soul.
Topic: Books
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Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.
Topic: Brevity
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Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.
Topic: Brevity
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Nothing so cements and holds together all the parts of a society as faith or credit, which can never be kept up unless men are under some force or necessity of honestly paying what they owe to one another.
Topic: Credit
Source: None
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Man is his own worst enemy.
Topic: Enemy
Source: None
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When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.
Topic: Faith
Source: None
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Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.
Topic: Fidelity
Source: None
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Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.
Topic: Freedom
Source: None
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Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.
Topic: Gratitude
Source: None
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It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
Topic: Grief
Source: None
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The greatest incitement to guilt is the hope of sinning with impunity.
Topic: Guilt
Source: None
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Hatred is settled anger.
Topic: Hate
Source: None
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The causes of events are ever more interresting than the events themselves.
Topic: History
Source: None
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Virtue is its own reward.
Topic: Inspirational
Source: None
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Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all
others.
Topic: Inspirational
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When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Topic: Law
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He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.
Topic: Leisure
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The most desirable thing in life after health and modest means is leisure with dignity.
Topic: Leisure
Source: None
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We are in bondage to the law so that we might be free.
Topic: Liberty
Source: None
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A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
Topic: Literature
Source: None
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A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him.
Topic: Manners
Source: None
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The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.
Topic: Moderation
Source: None
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Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinion, most praiseworthy: not that the public eye should be entirely avoided, for good actions desire to be placed in the light; but notwithstanding this, the greatest theater for virtue is conscience.
Topic: Ostentation
Source: None
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He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.
Topic: Passion
Source: None
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True glory strikes root, and even extends itself; all false pretensions fall as do flowers, nor can any feigned thing be lasting.
Topic: Pretension
Source: None
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There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.
Topic: Study
Source: None
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Superstition is a senseless fear of God.
Topic: Superstition
Source: None
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Taxes are the sinews of the state.
Topic: Tax
Source: None
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There is wickedness in the intention of wickedness, even though it be not perpetrated in the act.
Topic: Wickedness
Source: None
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