| Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit. |
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| Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity. |
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| Education is the best provision for old age. |
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| It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. |
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| The distinction between historian and poet is not in the one writing prose and the other verse... the one describes the thing that has been, and the other a kind of thing that might be. Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are of the nature rather of universals, whereas those of history are singulars. |
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| All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire. |
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| Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way...you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions. |
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| Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. |
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| If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is Nature's way. |
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| Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them. |
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| It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered. |
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| The greatest crimes are caused by surfeit, not by want. |
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| Happiness depends upon ourselves. |
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| The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold. |
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| The basis of a democratic state is liberty. |
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| Misfortune shows those who are not really friends. |
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| The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend. |
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| What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. |
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| Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. |
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| All men by nature desire knowledge. |
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