• Various

  A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him.

  4.5 · 55 votes · 131 reads

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• Art and Culture

  A room without books is like a body without a soul.

  4.2 · 31 votes · 8 reads

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• Time

  A sensual and intemperate youth translates into an old worn-out body.

  5.0 · 23 votes · 85 reads

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• Feelings

  A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others.

  3.6 · 11 votes · 23 reads

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• Virtues

  Ability without honor is useless.

  4.2 · 51 votes · 0 reads

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• Time

  Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

  4.5 · 57 votes · 168 reads

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• Feelings

  All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.

  4.6 · 27 votes · 44 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

  5.0 · 20 votes · 140 reads

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• Virtues

  As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmove

  4.9 · 45 votes · 83 reads

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• Time

  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.

  4.4 · 30 votes · 110 reads

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• Various

  Before beginning, plan carefully.

  4.6 · 13 votes · 25 reads

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• Virtues

  Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

  3.1 · 13 votes · 44 reads

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• Virtues

  Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.

  4.7 · 13 votes · 68 reads

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• Virtues

  Can there be greater foolishness than the respect you pay to people collectively when you despise them individually?

  4.9 · 44 votes · 17 reads

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• Feelings

  Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

  4.3 · 53 votes · 8 reads

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• Government and Politics

  Empire and liberty.

  4.0 · 56 votes · 64 reads

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• Feelings

  Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

  4.3 · 30 votes · 80 reads

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• Time

  Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

  4.9 · 50 votes · 43 reads

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• Feelings

  Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

  4.6 · 52 votes · 23 reads

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• Society

  Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.

  5.0 · 16 votes · 90 reads

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• Feelings

  Friends are proved by adversity.

  3.2 · 10 votes · 37 reads

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• Feelings

  Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.

  4.6 · 18 votes · 33 reads

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• Feelings

  Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.

  4.5 · 26 votes · 185 reads

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• Society

  Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

  4.8 · 61 votes · 139 reads

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• Virtues

  Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.

  3.1 · 46 votes · 106 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.

  4.5 · 43 votes · 48 reads

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• Various

  Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.

  3.4 · 12 votes · 131 reads

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• Feelings

  Hatred is inveterate anger.

  3.8 · 32 votes · 51 reads

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• Feelings

  Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.

  3.8 · 39 votes · 121 reads

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• Art and Culture

  He cannot be strict in judging, who does not wish others to be strict judges of himself.

  3.9 · 14 votes · 54 reads

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• Feelings

  He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

  3.1 · 19 votes · 18 reads

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• Various

  Honor is the reward of virtue.

  4.2 · 64 votes · 2 reads

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• Virtues

  I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.

  4.8 · 56 votes · 194 reads

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• Defects

  I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know.

  3.1 · 58 votes · 140 reads

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• Defects

  I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.

  3.5 · 40 votes · 88 reads

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• Society

  I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.

  4.0 · 11 votes · 177 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

  4.4 · 47 votes · 187 reads

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• Feelings

  In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

  4.6 · 32 votes · 88 reads

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• Virtues

  It is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry when what we search for is excellent.

  4.1 · 8 votes · 11 reads

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• Feelings

  It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less with baldness.

  3.0 · 23 votes · 137 reads

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• Friendship7 of their quotes
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