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There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.
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Justice consists in doing no injury to men decency in giving them no offense.
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If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.
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Live as brave men and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.
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It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal.
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Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.
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Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.
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If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.
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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.
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While there’s life, there’s hope.
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The more laws, the less justice.
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The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.
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Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
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I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.
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Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.
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While there’s life, there’s hope.
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A home without books is a body without soul.
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In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.
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Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
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Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.