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Quote link. Other quotes about: intention: "Advice is judged by results, not by intentions."
Quote link. Other quotes about: friend: "A friend is, as it were, a second self."
Quote link. Other quotes about: happy life mind: "A happy life consists in tranquillity of mind."
Quote link. Other quotes about: old life peace: "A life of peace, purity, and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age."
Quote link. Other quotes about: mind: "All action is of the mind and the mirror of the mind is the face, its index the eyes."
Quote link. Other quotes about: mind: "A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation."
Quote link. Other quotes about: nature born: "Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature."
Quote link. Other quotes about: old: "As the old proverb says Like readily consorts with like."
Quote link. Other quotes about: physical man: "Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form reveals is not yourself the spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which and be pointed out by your finger."
Quote link.: "By force of arms."
Quote link. Other quotes about: money war sin: "Endless money forms the sinews of war."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man: "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 character is, the better it fits him."
Quote link.: "Force overcome by force."
Quote link. Other quotes about: value: "Freedom is a possession of inestimable value."
Quote link.: "Friendship make prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it."
Quote link.: "Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others."
Quote link. Other quotes about: reason: "He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason."
Quote link. Other quotes about: friendship friend respect friends: "He removes the greatest ornament of friendship, who takes away from it respect."
Quote link. Other quotes about: time life: "History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquity."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man: "If a man aspires to the highest place, it is no dishonor to him to halt at the second, or even at the third."
Quote link.: "If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place."
Quote link. Other quotes about: power men glory: "In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honour, command, power, and glory."
Quote link. Other quotes about: mind: "In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body."
Quote link.: "It is a great thing to know our vices."
Quote link.: "It is a true saying that One falsehood leads easily to another."
Quote link. Other quotes about: nature: "I will go further, and assert that nature without culture can often do more to deserve praise than culture without nature."
Quote link.: "Law stands mute in the midst of arms."
Quote link. Other quotes about: war: "Let arms give place to the robe, and the laurel of the warriors yield to the tongue of the orator."
Quote link.: "Let the punishment match the offense."
Quote link. Other quotes about: reason rule: "Let your desires be ruled by reason."
Quote link.: "Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude."
Quote link. Other quotes about: men: "Live as brave men and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts."
Quote link. Other quotes about: hope hate love fear: "Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion, or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute."
Quote link. Other quotes about: glory education: "Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man wise rich: "Nature herself makes the wise man rich."
Quote link. Other quotes about: light: "Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor can thoughts be made to shine without the light of language."
Quote link.: "Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide."
Quote link. Other quotes about: understand: "No one can speak well, unless he thoroughly understands his subject."
Quote link. Other quotes about: world time past child: "Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge."
Quote link. Other quotes about: live life honest: "Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly."
Quote link.: "Our thoughts are free."
Quote link.: "Reason should direct and appetite obey."
Quote link.: "Strain every nerve to gain your point."
Quote link.: "Such praise coming from so degraded a source, was degrading to me, its recipient."
Quote link. Other quotes about: nature good: "The absolute good is not a matter of opinion but of nature."
Quote link. Other quotes about: wrong man nature evil: "The evil implanted in man by nature spreads so imperceptibly, when the habit of wrong-doing is unchecked, that he himself can set no limit to his shamelessness."
Quote link. Other quotes about: duty first truth man: "The first duty of a man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth."
Quote link. Other quotes about: freedom: "The freedom of poetic license."
Quote link. Other quotes about: friend never man: "The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret - that man is black at heart mark and avoid him."
Quote link. Other quotes about: death freedom evil peace war: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: people good law: "The people's good is the highest law."
Quote link. Other quotes about: wrong: "There are some duties we owe even to those who have wronged us. There is, after all, a limit to retribution and punishment."
Quote link. Other quotes about: duty: "There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness."
Quote link. Other quotes about: nothing: "There is nothing so ridiculous but some philosopher has said it."
Quote link. Other quotes about: friend friends: "The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends."
Quote link. Other quotes about: wrong law: "The strictest law often causes the most serious wrong."
Quote link. Other quotes about: people law: "The welfare of the people is the ultimate law."
Quote link. Other quotes about: experience reason wise mind: "The wise are instructed by reason ordinary minds by experience the stupid, by necessity and brutes by instinct."
Quote link. Other quotes about: rich: "To be content with what one has is the greatest and truest of riches."
Quote link.: "To each his own."
Quote link. Other quotes about: human respect: "We are obliged to respect, defend and maintain the common bonds of union and fellowship that exist among all members of the human race."
Quote link. Other quotes about: religion: "We do not destroy religion by destroying superstition."
Quote link.: "We must not say every mistake is a foolish one."
Quote link. Other quotes about: right pain: "What we call pleasure, and rightly so is the absence of all pain."
Quote link. Other quotes about: men mind wish: "When you wish to instruct, be brief that men's minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind."
Quote link. Other quotes about: honest: "Where is there dignity unless there is honesty"
Quote link. Other quotes about: hope life: "While there's life, there's hope."

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