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A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.
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A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
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A great fortune is a great slavery.
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A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.
[ Individuality ]
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A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.
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A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.
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A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
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A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor.
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A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.
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A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.
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All art is an imitation of nature.
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All cruelty springs from weakness.
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Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.
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Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.
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Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
[ Architecture ]
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Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
[ Adversity ]
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But it is a pretty thing to see what money will do!
[ Money ]
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Calamity is virtue's opportunity.
[ Calamity ]
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Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.
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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.
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Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.
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Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
[ Difficulties ]
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Disease is not of the body but of the place.
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Do everything as in the eye of another.
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Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.
[ Prayer ]
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Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.
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Economy is too late when you are at the bottom of your purse.
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Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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Even if it is to be, what end do you serve by running to distress?
[ Expectation ]
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Every guilty person is his own hangman.
[ Punishment ]
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Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
[ Fate ]
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Fate rules the affairs of men, with no recognizable order.
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Fidelity purchased with money, money can destroy.
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Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
[ Adversity ]
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For greed all nature is too little.
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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.
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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.
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He has committed the crime who profits by it.
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He is a king who fears nothing, he is a king who desires nothing!
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He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.
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He that does good to another does good also to himself.
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He who boasts of his descent, praises the deed of another.
[ Ancestry ]
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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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He who is brave is free.
[ Freedom ]
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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
[ Quotations ]
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If a man does not know what port he is steering for, no wind is favorable to him.
[ Goals ]
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If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.
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