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Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.

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It is by testing that we discern fine gold.

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The science of mathematics performs more than it promises.

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Temperate men drink the most, because they drink the longest.

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Put on the livery of the best master only to serve the worst.

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Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship—never.

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Gaming is the child of avarice, but the parent of prodigality.

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Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.

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When all run by common consent into vice, none appear to do so.

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Beautiful as the rainbow - that smiling daughter of the storm...

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In all countries where nature does the most, man does the least.

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Oppression cannot prosper where none will submit to be enslaved.

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The integrity that lives only on opinion would starve without it.

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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

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A youth without fire is followed by an old age without experience.

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To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.

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Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

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Women generally consider consequences in love, seldom in resentment.

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Our actions must clothe us with an immortality loathsome or glorious.

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Body and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree to die together.

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We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves.

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Folly disgusts us less by her ignorance than pedantry by her learning.

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That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.

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Sloth, if it has prevented many crimes, has also smothered many virtues.

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Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.

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Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.

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The next thing to having wisdom ourselves, is to profit by that of others.

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It is better to have wisdom without learning than learning without wisdom.

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Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.

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Some reputed saints that have been canonized ought to have been cannonaded.

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