| The freedom of poetic license. |
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| There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness. |
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| Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's is, the better it fits him. |
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| If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains. |
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| It is a great thing to know our vices. |
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| Where is there dignity unless there is honesty? |
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| The soul in sleep gives proof of its divine nature. |
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| Friendship make prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it. |
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| The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends. |
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| Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money. |
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| Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts. |
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| Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself. |
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| There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it. |
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| There is nothing so ridiculous but some philosopher has said it. |
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| He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason. |
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| We must not say every mistake is a foolish one. |
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| If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. |
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| The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death. |
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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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| Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. |
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