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Sweet Is The Recollection Of Difficulties Overcome.

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Sweet Is The Recollection Of Difficulties Overcome.

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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.

Hatred Is Settled Anger.

Anyone Who Has Got A Book Collection/library And A Garden Wants For Nothing.

What Is Thine Is Mine, And All Mine Is Thine.

As The Grace Of Man Is In The Mind, So The Beauty Of The Mind Is Eloquence.

In Everything Truth Surpasses The Imitation And Copy.

Time Obliterates The Fictions Of Opinion And Confirms The Decisions Of Nature.

Even While Jerusalem Was Standing And The Jews Were At Peace With Us, The Practice Of Their Sacred Rites Was At Variance With The Glory Of Our Empire, The Dignity Of Our Name, The Customs Of Our Ancestors.

Since An Intelligence Common To Us All Makes Things Known To Us And Formulates Them In Our Minds, Honorable Actions Are Ascribed By Us To Virtue, And Dishonorable Actions To Vice; And Only A Madman Would Conclude That These Judgments Are Matters Of Opinion, And Not Fixed By Nature.

There Is Nothing Which God Cannot Do. [lat., Nihil Est Quod Deus Efficere Non Possit.]

Where Is There Dignity Unless There Is Honesty?

Friends, Though Absent, Are Still Present.

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.

There Is No Place More Delightful Than Home.

Justice Renders To Every One His Due.

I Hope That The Memory Of Our Friendship Will Be Everlasting.

Certain Signs Are The Forerunners Of Certain Events.

There Is A Certain Virtue In Every Good Man, Which Night And Day Stirs Up The Mind With The Stimulus Of Glory, And Reminds It That All Mention Of Our Name Will Not Cease At The Same Time With Our Lives, But That Our Fame Will Endure To All Posterity.

Habit Is, As It Were, A Second Nature. [lat., Consuetudo Quasi Altera Natura Effici.]

Honor Is The Reward Of Virtue.

It Is The Character Of A Brave And Resolute Man Not To Be Ruffled By Adversity And Not To Desert His Post.

I Prefer The Wisdom Of The Uneducated To The Folly Of The Loquacious.

...the Counsels Of The Divine Mind Had Some Glimpse Of Truth When They Said That Men Are Born In Order To Suffer The Penalty For Sins Committed In A Former Life.

There Is No Mortal Whom Pain And Disease Do Not Reach.

That Last Day Does Not Bring Extinction To Us, But Change Of Place.

The Judgment Of Posterity Is Truer, Because It Is Free From Envy And Malevolence.

Justice Extorts No Reward, No Kind Of Price; She Is Sought, Therefore, For Her Own Sake.

What Is Permissible Is Not Always Honorable.

A Careful Physician . . . Before He Attempts To Administer A Remedy To His Patient, Must Investigate Not Only The Malady Of The Man He Wishes To Cure, But Also His Habits When In Health, And His Physical Constitution.

For Nothing Is More Commendable, Nothing More Becoming In A Preeminently Great Man Than Courtesy And Forbearance.

Our Character Is Not So Much The Product Of Race And Heredity As Of Those Circumstances By Which Nature Forms Our Habits, By Which We Are Nurtured And Live.

Whatever That Be Which Thinks, Understands, Wills, And Acts, It Is Something Celestial And Divine.

I Am Not Ashamed To Confess That I Am Ignorant Of What I Do Not Know.

So You See, Old Age Is Really Not So Bad. May You Come To Know The Condition!

Such Are A Well Regulated Militia, Composed Of The Freeholders, Citizen And Husbandman, Who Take Up Arms To Preserve Their Property, As Individuals, And Their Rights As Freemen.

Second Amendment

A Man Of Courage Is Also Full Of Faith.

We Study History Not To Be Clever In Another Time, But To Be Wise Always.

Every Man's Friend Is No Man's Friend.

The Following Passage Is One Of Those Cited By Copernicus Himself In His Preface To De Revolutionibus: "the Syracusan Hicetas, As Theophrastus Asserts, Holds The View That The Heaven, Sun, Moon, Stars, And In Short All Of The Things On High Are Stationary, And That Nothing In The World Is In Motion Except The Earth, Which By Revolving And Twisting Round Its Axis With Extreme Velocity Produces All The Same Results As Would Be Produced If The Earth Were Stationary And The Heaven In Motion. . . ."

The Only Excuse For War Is That We May Live In Peace Unharmed.

For No Phase Of Life, Whether Public Or Private, Whether In Business Or In The Home, Whether One Is Working On What Concerns Oneself Alone Or Dealing With Another, Can Be Without Its Moral Duty; On The Discharge Of Such Duties Depends All That Is Morally Right, And On Their Neglect All That Is Morally Wrong In Life.

He Only Employs His Passion Who Can Make No Use Of His Reason.

For It Is Commonly Said: Accomplished Labours Are Pleasant.

Let Your Desires Be Ruled By Reason.

It Is Of No Avail To Know What Is About To Happen; For It Is A Sad Thing To Be Grieved When Grief Can Do No Good.

You Must Become An Old Man In Good Time If You Wish To Be An Old Man Long. [lat., Mature Fieri Senem, Si Diu Velis Esses Senex.]

The Jews Belong To A Dark And Repulsive Force. One Knows How Numerous This Clique Is, How They Stick Together And What Power They Exercise Through Their Unions. They Are A Nation Of Rascals And Deceivers.

When You Have No Basis For An Argument, Abuse The Plaintiff.

There Is No Life Without Friendship

It Shows A Weak Mind Not To Bear Prosperity As Well As Adversity With Moderation.

Thus Nature Has No Love For Solitude, And Always Leans, As It Were, On Some Support; And The Sweetest Support Is Found In The Most Intimate Friendship.

Cannot People Realize How Large An Income Is Thrift?

Never Injure A Friend, Even In Jest.

People Do Not Understand What A Great Revenue Economy Is.

What Is More Agreeable Than One's Home?

Were Floods Of Tears To Be Unloosed In Tribute To My Grief, The Doves Of Noah Ne'er Had Roost Nor Found An Olive-leaf.

In A Disordered Mind, As In A Disordered Body, Soundness Of Health Is Impossible.

The Dutifulness Of Children Is The Foundation Of All Virtues.

My Precept To All Who Build, Is, That The Owner Should Be An Ornament To The House, And Not The House To The Owner.

We Cannot Employ The Mind To Advantage When We Are Filled With Excessive Food And Drink.

Would That I Could Discover Truth As Easily As I Can Uncover Falsehood.

For Of All Gainful Professions, Nothing Is Better, Nothing More Pleasing, Nothing More Delightful, Nothing Better Becomes A Well-bred Man Than #‎ Agriculture

How Much In Love With Himself, And That Too Without A Rival!

In Our Amusements A Certain Limit Is To Be Placed That We May Not Devote Ourselves To A Life Of Pleasure And Thence Fall Into Immorality.

No One Could Ever Meet Death For His Country Without The Hope Of Immortality.

No One Has Lived A Short Life Who Has Performed Its Duties With Unblemished Character.

Brevity Is The Best Recommendation Of Speech, Whether In A Senator Or An Orator.

Brevity Of Life

Read At Every Wait; Read At All Hours; Read Within Leisure; Read In Times Of Labor; Read As One Goes In; Read As One Goest Out. The Task Of The Educated Mind Is Simply Put: Read To Lead.

Freedom Is A Man's Natural Power Of Doing What He Pleases, So Far As He Is Not Prevented By Force Or Law.

They Who Dare To Ask Anything Of A Friend, By Their Very Request Seem To Imply That They Would Do Anything For The Sake Of That Friend.

The Wise Man Knows Nothing If He Cannot Benefit From His Wisdom. Wisdom Is Not Only To Be Acquired, But Also To Be Utilized.

This Seems To Be Advanced As The Surest Basis For Our Belief In The Existence Of Gods, That There Is No Race So Uncivilized, No One In The World So Barbarous That His Mind Has No Inkling Of A Belief In Gods.

The Absolute Good Is Not A Matter Of Opinion But Of Nature.

Trust No One Unless You Have Eaten Much Salt With Him.

The Greater The Difficulty, The Greater The Glory.

Oh, How Great Is The Power Of Truth! Which Of Its Own Power Can Easily Defend Itself Against All The Ingenuity And Cunning And Wisdom Of Men, And Against The Treacherous Plots Of All The World.

Not In Opinion But In Nature Is Law Founded.

All Action Is Of The Mind And The Mirror Of The Mind Is The Face, Its Index The Eyes.

Let Us Remember That Justice Must Be Observed Even To The Lowest.

It Is A Man's Own Dishonesty, His Crimes, His Wickedness, And Boldness, That Takes Away From Him Soundness Of Mind; These Are The Furies, These The Flames And Firebrands, Of The Wicked.

I Have Never Yet Known A Poet Who Did Not Think Himself Super-excellent.

Thou Shouldst Eat To Live; Not Live To Eat. [lat., Esse Oportet Ut Vivas, Non Vivere Ut Edas.]

All Pain Is Either Severe Or Slight, If Slight, It Is Easily Endured; If Severe, It Will Without Doubt Be Brief.

The Cultivation Of The Mind Is A Kind Of Food Supplied For The Soul Of Man.

If Wisdom Be Attainable, Let Us Not Only Win But Enjoy It.

There Is In Superstition A Senseless Fear Of God.

Prudence In Action Avails More Than Wisdom In Conception.

If Some Lose Their Whole Fortunes, They Will Drag Many More Down With Them . . . Believe Me That The Whole System Of Credit And Finance Which Is Carried On Here At Rome In The Forum, Is Inextricably Bound Up With The Revenues Of The Asiatic Province. If Those Revenues Are Destroyed, Our Whole System Of Credit Will Come Down With A Crash.

It Is Not Only Arrogant, But It Is Profligate, For A Man To Disregard The World's Opinion Of Himself.

In The Master There Is A Servant, In The Servant A Master.

The Devil Finds Work For Idle Hands To Do. Better To Reign In The Hell Than Serve In Heaven. We Are In Bondage To The Law In Order That We May Be Free.

Never Go To Excess, But Let Moderation Be Your Guide.

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.

Making A Difference

If Anyone Cannot Feel The Power Of God When He Looks Upon The Stars, Then I Doubt Whether He Is Capable Of Feeling At All. From The Enduring Wonder Of The Heavens Flows All Grace And Power. If Anyone Thinks It Is Mindless Then He Himself Must Be Out Of His Mind.

Lay Down This Rule Of Friendship: Neither Ask Nor Consent To Do What Is Wrong. The Plea, 'for Friendship's Sake,' Is A Discreditable One, And Should Not Be Admitted For A Moment. We Should Ask From Friends And Do For Friends Only What Is Good.

Man Must Suffer To Be Wise.

Friendship Is Not To Be Sought For Its Wages, But Because Its Revenue Consists Entirely In The Love Which It Implies.

There Are Gems Of Thought That Are Ageless And Eternal.

The Name Of Peace Is Sweet, The Thing Itself Is Most Salutary.

Peace Is Freedom In Tranquility.

All The Arts, Which Have A Tendency To Raise Man In The Scale Of Being, Have A Certain Common Band Of Union, And Are Connected, If I May Be Allowed To Say So, By Blood-relationship With One Another.

A Nation Can Survive Its Fools, And Even The Ambitious. But It Cannot Survive Treason From Within.

Just What Is The Civil Law? What Neither Influence Can Affect, Nor Power Break, Nor Money Corrupt: Were It To Be Suppressed Or Even Merely Ignored Or Inadequately Observed, No One Would Feel Safe About Anything, Whether His Own Possessions, The Inheritance He Expects From His Father, Or The Bequests He Makes To His Children.

No Phase Of Life, Whether Public Or Private, Can Be Free From Duty.

Everything That Thou Reprovest In Another, Thou Must Most Carefully Avoid In Thyself. [lat., Omnia Quae Vindicaris In Altero, Tibi Ipsi Vehementer Fugienda Sunt.]

The Diligent Farmer Plants Trees, Of Which He Himself Will Never See The Fruit.

Justice Is The Crowning Glory Of The Virtues.

In Nothing Do Men More Nearly Approach The Gods Than In Giving Health To Men.

Most Happy Is He Who Is Entirely Self-reliant, And Who Centers All His Requirements In Himself Alone.

There Are Two Ways To Resolve Conflicts, Through Violence Or Through Negotiation. Violence Is For Wild Beasts, Negotiation Is For Human Beings.

So Near Is Falsehood To Truth That A Wise Man Would Do Well Not To Trust Himself On The Narrow Edge.

Do Not Hold The Delusion That Your Advancement Is Accomplished By Crushing Others.

When A Government Becomes Powerful It Is Destructive, Extravagant And Violent; It Is An Usurer Which Takes Bread From Innocent Mouths And Deprives Honorable Men Of Their Substance, For Votes With Which To Perpetuate Itself.

Whatever You Do, Do With All Your Might.

Positive Attitude

Vivere Est Cogitare. (to Think Is To Live)

He Who Hangs On The Errors Of The Ignorant Multitude, Must Not Be Counted Among Great Men.

Nothing Quite New Is Perfect.

Things Sacred Should Not Only Be Touched With The Hands, But Unviolated In Thought. [lat., Res Sacros Non Modo Manibus Attingi, Sed Ne Cogitatione Quidem Violari Fas Fuit.]

He Has No Other Recommendation, Save An Assumed And Crafty Solemnity Of Demeanour.

Recommendations

Economy Is A Great Revenue. [lat., Magnum Vectigal Est Parsimonia.]

Nothing Contributes To The Entertainment Of The Reader More, Than The Change Of Times And The Vicissitudes Of Fortune.

The Beginnings Of All Things Are Small.

To Remain Ignorant Of History Is To Remain Forever A Child

Like, According To The Old Proverb, Naturally Goes With Like.

There Is No Castle So Strong That It Cannot Be Overthrown By Money.

The Office Of Liberality Consisteth In Giving With Judgment.

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.

Men Think They May Justly Do That For Which They Have A Precedent.

There Is Nothing More Shocking Than To See Assertion And Approval Dashing Ahead Of Cognition And Perception.

Friendship Improves Happiness And Abates Misery, By The Doubling Of Our Joy And The Dividing Of Our Grief.

It Is Like Taking The Sun Out Of The World, To Bereave Human Life Of Friendship.

Dissimulation Creeps Gradually Into The Minds Of Men.

Let Us Not Listen To Those Who Think We Ought To Be Angry With Our Enemies, And Who Believe This To Be Great And Manly. Nothing Is So Praiseworthy, Nothing So Clearly Shows A Great And Noble Soul, As Clemency And Readiness To Forgive.

In A Republic This Rule Ought To Be Observed: That The Majority Should Not Have The Predominant Power.

Any Man Can Make Mistakes, But Only An Idiot Persists In His Error.

For The Laws Are Dumb In The Midst Of Arms.

There Is Not A Moment Without Some Duty.

To Be Content With What We Possess Is The Greatest And Most Secure Of Riches.

Non Nobis Solum Nati Sumus. (not For Ourselves Alone Are We Born.)

In Everything Satiety Closely Follows The Greatest Pleasures.

Pleasures Of Life

Silence Is One Of The Great Arts Of Conversation.

Virtue Is A Habit Of The Mind, Consistent With Nature And Moderation And Reason.

How Do Our Philosophers Act? Do They Not Inscribe Their Signatures To The Very Essays They Write On The Propriety Of Despising Glory.

If We Lose Affection And Kindliness From Our Life: We Lose All That Gives It Charm.

Leisure Consists In All Those Virtuous Activities By Which A Man Grows Morally, Intellectually, And Spiritually. It Is That Which Makes A Life Worth Living.

We Must Not Say That Every Mistake Is A Foolish One.

Ye Immortal Gods! Where In The World Are We?

It Shows A Brave And Resolute Spirit Not To Be Agitated In Exciting Circumstances.

It Is A Great Proof Of Talents To Be Able To Recall The Mind From The Senses, And To Separate Thought From Habit.

For A Tear Is Quickly Dried, Especially When Shed For The Misfortunes Of Others.

Misfortunes Of Others

The Eyes Like Sentinel Occupy The Highest Place In The Body.

The Aim Of Justice Is To Give Everyone His Due.

History Illumes Reality, Vitalizes Memory, Provides Guidance In Daily Life

History Of Life

Socrates Was The First To Call Philosophy Down From The Heavens And To Place It In Cities, And Even To Introduce It Into Homes And Compel It To Inquire About Life And Standards And Goods And Evils.

Generosity Should Never Exceed Ability.

A Sensual And Intemperate Youth Hands Over A Worn-out Body To Old Age. [lat., Libidinosa Etenim Et Intemperans Adolescentiam Effoetum Corpus Tradit Senectuti.]

Aristoteles Quidem Ait: 'omnes Ingeniosos Melancholicos Esse.' Aristotle Says That All Men Of Genius Are Melancholy.

Quacks Pretend To Cure Other Men's Disorders, But Fail To Find A Remedy For Their Own.

The Spirit Is The True Self, Not That Physical Figure Which Can Be Pointed Out By Your Finger.

As I Give Thought To The Matter, I Find Four Causes For The Apparent Misery Of Old Age; First, It Withdraws Us From Active Accomplishments; Second, It Renders The Body Less Powerful; Third, It Deprives Us Of Almost All Forms Of Enjoyment; Fourth, It Stands Not Far From Death.

No Deceit Is So Veiled As That Which Lies Concealed Behind The Semblance Of Courtesy.

He Is Rich Who Wishes No More Than He Has.

We Were Born To Unite With Our Fellow Men, And To Join In Community With The Human Race.

Nature Abhors Annihilation.

Some Men Make A Womanish Complaint That It Is A Great Misfortune To Die Before Our Time. I Would Ask What Time? Is It That Of Nature? But She, Indeed, Has Lent Us Life, As We Do A Sum Of Money, Only No Certain Day Is Fixed For Payment. What Reason Then To Complain If She Demands It At Pleasure, Since It Was On This Condition That You Received It.

Man Is His Own Worst Enemy.

If You Wish To Persuade Me, You Must Think My Thoughts, Feel My Feelings, And Speak My Words.

No One Sees What Is Before His Feet: We All Gaze At The Stars. [lat., Quod Est Ante Pedes Nemo Spectat: Coeli Scrutantur Plagas.]

But If You Should Take The Bond Of Goodwill Out Of The Universe No House Or City Could Stand, Nor Would Even The Tillage Of The Fields Abide. If That Statement Is Not Clear, Then You May Understand How Great Is The Power Of Friendship And Of Concord From A Consideration Of The Results Of Enmity And Disagreement. For What House Is So Strong, Or What State So Enduring That It Cannot Be Utterly Overthrown By Animosities And Division?

Let War Yield To Peace, Laurels To Paeans.

The Celestial Order And The Beauty Of The Universe Compel Me To Admit That There Is Some Excellent And Eternal Being, Who Deserves The Respect And Homage Of Men

That Is Probable Which For The Most Part Usually Comes To Pass, Or Which Is A Part Of The Ordinary Beliefs Of Mankind.

Loyalty Is What We Seek In Friendship.

I Am Of The Opinion Which You Have Always Held, That "viva Voce" Voting At Elections Is The Best Method. [lat., Nam Ego In Ista Sum Sententia, Qua Te Fuisse Semper Scio, Nihil Ut Feurit In Suffragiis Voce Melius.]

All Things Are Full Of God.

Because All The Sick Do Not Recover, Therefore Medicine Is Not An Art.

There Is Nothing Proper About What You Are Doing, Soldier, But Do Try To Kill Me Properly.

Can You Also, Lucullus, Affirm That There Is Any Power United With Wisdom And Prudence Which Has Made, Or, To Use Your Own Expression, Manufactured Man? What Sort Of A Manufacture Is That? Where Is It Exercised? When? Why? How?

Without Your Knowledge, The Eyes And Ears Of Many Will See And Watch You, As They Have Done Already.

For To Me Every Sort Of Peace With The Citizens Seemed To Be Of More Service Than Civil War.

When You Wish To Instruct, Be Brief; That Men's [children'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.

The Greatest Incitement To Guilt Is The Hope Of Sinning With Impunity.

The Nobler A Man, The Harder It Is For Him To Suspect Inferiority In Others.

The Remembrance Of Past Misery Is Sweet.

No Power Is Strong Enough To Be Lasting, If It Labours Under The Weight Of Fear.

The Administration Of Government, Like A Guardianship Ought To Be Directed To The Good Of Those Who Confer, Not Of Those Who Receive The Trust.

The Harvest Of Old Age Is The Recollection And Abundance Of Blessing Previously Secured.

Tomorrow Will Give Us Something To Think About

Anger Should Never Appear In Awarding Punishment.

Let Flattery, The Handmaid Of The Vices, Be Far Removed (from Friendship). [lat., Assentatio, Vitiorum Adjutrix, Procul Amoveatur.]

The Life Of The Dead Consists In The Recollection Cherished Of Them By The Living.

The Chief Recommendation Is Modesty, Then Dutiful Conduct Toward Parents, Then Affection For Kindred.

Never Was A Government That Was Not Composed Of Liars, Malefactors And Thieves.

Strict Law Is Often Great Injustice.

Law Stands Mute In The Midst Of Arms.

Wars, Therefore, Are To Be Undertaken For This End, That We May Live In Peace, Without Being Injured; But When We Obtain The Victory, We Must Preserve Those Enemies Who Behaved Without Cruelty Or Inhumanity During The War.

I Shall Always Consider The Best Guesser The Best Prophet.

Peace Is So Beneficial That The Word Itself Is Pleasant To Hear.

Our Minds Are Rendered Buoyant By Exercise.

If We Are Not Ashamed To Think It, We Should Not Be Ashamed To Say It.

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