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The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.
Topic: Abundance
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Whatever you do, do with all your might.
Topic: Actions
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As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.
Topic: Age
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When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Topic: Argument
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Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.
Topic: Brevity
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Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.
Topic: Courage
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Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
Topic: Cunning
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Justice consists of doing no one injury, decency in giving no one offense.
Topic: Decency
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To stumble twice against the same stone is a proverbial disgrace.
Topic: Disgrace
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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: Faithfulness
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In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names.
Topic: Fame
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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
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Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.
Topic: Friendship
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If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
Topic: Garden
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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.
Topic: Glory
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True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.
Topic: Glory
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Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.
Topic: Gratitude
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No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.
Topic: Greatness
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It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less with baldness.
Topic: Hair
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He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.
Topic: Idleness
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Justice consists of doing no one injury, decency in giving no one offense.
Topic: Injury
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Justice consists of doing no one injury, decency in giving no one offense.
Topic: Jury
Source: None
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It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.
Topic: Perseverance
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A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others.
Topic: Pity
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A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others.
Topic: Quick
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If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Topic: Shame
Source: None
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They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper.
Topic: Temper
Source: None
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An unjust peace is better than a just war.
Topic: War
Source: None
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