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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.

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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.

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What Is Dignity Without Honesty?

If We Are Forced, At Every Hour, To Watch Or Listen To Horrible Events, This Constant Stream Of Ghastly Impressions Will Deprive Even The Most Delicate Among Us Of All Respect For Humanity.

Nature Has Granted The Use Of Life Like A Loan, Without Fixing Any Day For Repayment.

Anyone May Fairly Seek His Own Advantage, But No One Has A Right To Do So At Another's Expense.

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.

A Nation Can Survive Its Fools, Even The Ambitious. But It Cannot Survive Treason From Within....for The Traitor Appears Not To Be A Traitor...he Rots The Soul Of A Nation...he Infects The Body Politic So That It Can No Longer Resist.

Rashness Is The Companion Of Youth, Prudence Of Old Age.

The Impulse Which Directs To Right Conduct, And Deters From Crime, Is Not Only Older Than The Ages Of Nations And Cities, But Coeval With That Divine Being Who Sees And Rules Both Heaven And Earth.

Patria Est Communis Omnium Parens. Our Country Is The Common Parent Of All.

Justice Renders To Every One His Due.

When Money Is Unreasonably Coveted, It Is A Disease Of The Mind Which Is Called Avarice.

The Most Evident Difference Between Man And Animals Is This: The Beast, In As Much As It Is Largely Motivated By The Senses And With Little Perception Of The Past Or Future, Lives Only For The Present. But Man, Because He Is Endowed With Reason By Which He Is Able To Perceive Relationships, Sees The Causes Of Things, Understands The Reciprocal Nature Of Cause And Effect, Makes Analogies, Easily Surveys The Whole Course Of His Life, And Makes The Necessary Preparations For Its Conduct.

Nature Has Inclined Us To Love Men.

The Enemy Is Within The Gates; It Is With Our Own Luxury, Our Own Folly, Our Own Criminality That We Have To Contend.

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

Let Every Man Practice The Art That He Knows Best.

To Freemen, Threats Are Impotent. [lat., Nulla Enim Minantis Auctoritas Apud Liberos Est.]

We Must Be Ever On The Search For Some Persons Whom We Shall Love And Who Will Love Us In Return. If Good Will And Affection Are Taken Away, Every Joy Is Taken From Life.

True Glory Strikes Root, And Even Extends Itself; All False Pretensions Fall As Do Flowers, Nor Can Any Feigned Thing Be Lasting.

I Know Not Any Season Of Life That Is Past More Agreeably Than Virtuous Old Age.

Prudence Must Not Be Expected From A Man Who Is Never Sober. [lat., Non Est Ab Homine Nunquam Sobrio Postulanda Prudentia.]

Pardon Is Granted To Necessity.

The Hours Pass And The Days And The Months And The Years, And The Past Time Never Returns.

Apollo, Sacred Guard Of Earth's True Core, Whence First Came Frenzied, Wild Prophetic Word.

Loyalty Is What We Seek In Friendship.

Probability Is The Very Guide Of Life.

There Is Nothing God Cannot Do.

They Condemn What They Do Not Understand.

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

To Live Long It Is Necessary To Live Slowly.

All Men Have A Feeling, That They Would Rather You Told Them A Civil Lie Than Give Them A Point Blank Refusal.... If You Make A Promise, The Thing Is Still Uncertain, Depends On A Future Day, And Concerns But Few People; But If You Refuse You Alienate People To A Certainty And At Once, And Many People Too.

To Add A Library To A House Is To Give That House A Soul.

No Man Was Ever Great Without Divine Inspiration. [lat., Nemo Vir Magnus Aliquo Afflatu Divino Unquam Fuit.]

Philosophy Is The True Mother Of Science.

Prudence Is The Knowledge Of Things To Be Sought, And Those To Be Shunned.

When Trying A Case [the Famous Judge] L. Cassius Never Failed To Inquire "who Gained By It?" Man's Character Is Such That No One Undertakes Crimes Without Hope Of Gain.

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

While There's Life, There's Hope.

Advice Is Judged By Results, Not By Intentions.

Live As Brave Men; And If Fortune Is Adverse, Front Its Blows With Brave Hearts.

The Nearer I Approach Death The More I Feel Like One Who Is In Sight Of Land At Last And Is About To Anchor In One's Home Port After A Long Voyage.

Whatever Befalls In Accordance With Nature Should Be Accounted Good.

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

No Poet Or Orator Has Ever Existed Who Believed There Was Any Better Than Himself.

In Men Of The Highest Character And Noblest Genius There Is To Be Found An Insatiable Desire For Honor, Command, Power, And Glory.

Justice Is The Set And Constant Purpose Which Gives Every Man His Due.

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

How Great An Evil Do You See That May Have Been Announced By You Against The Republic? - Videtis Quantum Scelus Contra Rem Publicam Vobis Nuntiatum Sit?

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

Love Is The Attempt To Form A Friendship Inspired By Beauty.

The Precepts Of The Law Are These: To Live Honestly, To Injure No One, And To Give Everyone Else His Due.

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

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

Knowledge Which Is Divorced From Justice, May Be Called Cunning Rather Than Wisdom.

When Time And Need Require, We Should Resist With All Our Might, And Prefer Death To Slavery And Disgrace.

No One Is So Old That He Does Not Think He Could Live Another Year.

For A Courageous Man Cannot Die Dishonorably, A Man Who Has Attained The Consulship Cannot Die Before His Time, A Philosopher Cannot Die Wretchedly.

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

Freedom Is A Possession Of Inestimable Value.

The Memory Of Past Troubles Is Pleasant. [lat., Jucunda Memoria Est Praeteritorum Malorum.]

What Is Dishonestly Got Vanishes In Profligacy.

It Is The Act Of A Bad Man To Deceive By Falsehood.

An Innocent Man, If Accused, Can Be Acquitted; A Guilty Man, Unless Accused, Cannot Be Condemned. It Is, However, More Advantageous To Absolve An Innocent Than Not To Prosecute A Guilty Man.

Should This My Firm Persuasion Of The Soul's Immortality Prove To Be A Mere Delusion, It Is At Least A Pleasing Delusion, And I Will Cherish It To My Last Breath.

There Has Never Been A Poet Or Orator Who Thought Another Better Than Himself.

This Wine Is Forty Years Old. It Certainly Doesn't Show Its Age.

A War Is Never Undertaken By The Ideal State, Except In Defense Of Its Honor Or Its Safety.

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

Things Perfected By Nature Are Better Than Those Finished By Art.

Natural Environment

Man's Best Support Is A Very Dear Friend.

Through Ignorance Of What Is Good And What Is Bad, The Life Of Men Is Greatly Perplexed.

Enjoy The Blessing Of Strength While You Have It And Do Not Bewail It When It Is Gone, Unless, Forsooth, You Believe That Youth Must Lament The Loss Of Infancy, Or Early Manhood The Passing Of Youth. Life's Race-course Is Fixed; Nature Has Only A Single Path And That Path Is Run But Once, And To Each Stage Of Existence Has Been Allotted Its Own Appropriate Quality; So That The Weakness Of Childhood, The Impetuosity Of Youth, The Seriousness Of Middle Life, The Maturity Of Old Age.. Each Bears Some Of Nature's Fruit, Which Must Be Garnered In Its Own Season.

Not To Know What Happened Before You Were Born Is To Be A Child Forever. For What Is The Time Of A Man, Except It Be Interwoven With That Memory Of Ancient Things Of A Superior Age?

We Can More Easily Avenge An Injury Than Requite A Kindness; On This Account, Because There Is Less Difficulty In Getting The Better Of The Wicked Than In Making One's Self Equal With The Good.

A Person Who Is Wise Does Nothing Against Their Will, Nothing With Sighing Or Under Coercion.

There Is In Fact A True Law Namely Right Reason, Which Is In Accordance With Nature, Applies To All Men And Is Unchangeable And Eternal. ... It Will Not Lay Down One Rule At Rome And Another At Athens, Nor Will It Be One Rule Today And Another Tomorrow. But There Will Be One Law Eternal And Unchangeable Binding All Times And Upon All Peoples.

Studies Are The Food Of Youth, The Delight Of Old Age; The Ornament Of Prosperity, The Refuge And Comfort Of Adversity; A Delight At Home, And No Hindrance Abroad; They Are Companions By Night, And In Travel, And In The Country.

There Is No Grief Which Time Does Not Lessen And Soften.

But As To The Affection Which Anyone May Have For Us, It Is The First Demand Of Duty That We Do Most For Him Who Loves Us Most; But We Should Measure Affection, Not Like Youngsters, By The Ardour Of Its Passion, But Rather By Its Strength And Constancy.

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.

Times Are Bad. Children No Longer Obey Their Parents, And Everyone Is Writing A Book.

I Am Pleased To Be Praised By A Man So Praised As You, Father. [words Used By Hector.] [lat., Laetus Sum Laudari Me Abs Te, Pater, Laudato Viro.]

The Higher We Are Placed, The More Humbly We Should Walk.

I Shall Always Consider The Best Guesser The Best Prophet.

Probabilities Direct The Conduct Of The Wise Man.

These (literary) Studies Are The Food Of Youth, And Consolation Of Age; They Adorn Prosperity, And Are The Comfort And Refuge Of Adversity; They Are Pleasant At Home, And Are No Incumbrance Abroad; They Accompany Us At Night, In Our Travels, And In Our Rural Retreats.

Of All The Rewards Of Virtue, . . . The Most Splendid Is Fame, For It Is Fame Alone That Can Offer Us The Memory Of Posterity.

We Are All Excited By The Love Of Praise, And The Noblest Are Most Influenced By Glory.

The Forehead Is The Gate Of The Mind.

To Teach Is A Necessity, To Please Is A Sweetness, To Persuade Is A Victory.

There Is Nothing Which Wings Its Flight So Swiftly As Calumny, Nothing Is Uttered With More Ease; Nothing Is Listened To With More Readiness, Nothing Disbursed More Widely.

For What Is There More Hideous Than Avarice, More Brutal Than Lust, More Contemptible Than Cowardice, More Base Than Stupidity And Folly?

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

Let Our Friends Perish, Provided That Our Enemies Fall At The Same Time.

There Is No More Sure Tie Between Friends Than When They Are United In Their Objects And Wishes.

While The Sick Man Has Life, There Is Hope.

It Is Fortune, Not Wisdom, That Rules Man's Life.

For The Laws Are Dumb In The Midst Of Arms.

I Am Of Opinion That There Is Nothing So Beautiful But That There Is Something Still More Beautiful, Of Which This Is The Mere Image And Expression,--a Something Which Can Neither Be Perceived By The Eyes, The Ears, Nor Any Of The Senses; We Comprehend It Merely In The Imagination.

Friendship Makes Prosperity Brighter, While It Lightens Adversity By Sharing Its Griefs And Anxieties. [lat., Secundas Res Splendidiores Facit Amicitia, Et Adversas Partiens Communicansque Leviores.]

Lucius Cassius Ille Quem Populus Romanus Verissimum Et Sapientissimum Iudicem Putabat Identidem In Causis Quaerere Solebat 'cui Bono' Fuisset. The Famous Lucius Cassius, Whom The Roman People Used To Regard As A Very Honest And Wise Judge, Was In The Habit Of Asking, Time And Again, 'to Whose Benefit?

The Searching-out And Thorough Investigation Of Truth Ought To Be The Primary Study Of Man.

Personal Growth

It Might Be Pardonable To Refuse To Defend Some Men, But To Defend Them Negligently Is Nothing Short Of Criminal.

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.

Great Is The Power, Great Is The Authority Of A Senate That Is Unanimous In Its Opinions.

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

Enmity Is Anger Watching The Opportunity For Revenge.

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

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

To Be Ignorant Of The Past Is To Be Forever A Child.

Nature Has Circumscribed The Field Of Life Within Small Dimensions, But Has Left The Field Of Glory Unmeasured.

Learning Maketh Young Men Temperate, Is The Comfort Of Old Age, Standing For Wealth With Poverty, And Serving As An Ornament To Riches.

Sed Nescio Quo Modo Nihil Tam Absurde Dici Potest Quod Non Dicatur Ab Aliquo Philosphorum. (there Is Nothing So Absurd But Some Philosopher Has Said It.)

The Illustrious And Noble Ought To Place Before Them Certain Rules And Regulations, Not Less For Their Hours Of Leisure And Relaxation Than For Those Of Business.

Rules And Regulations

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

God's Law Is 'right Reason.' When Perfectly Understood It Is Called 'wisdom.' When Applied By Government In Regulating Human Relations It Is Called 'justice.

The Function Of Wisdom Is To Discriminate Between Good And Evil.

Glory Follows Virtue As If It Were Its Shadow.

We Do Not Destroy Religion By Destroying Superstition.

Sweet Is The Memory Of Past Troubles.

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.

In A Discussion Of This Kind Our Interest Should Be Centered Not On The Weight Of The Authority But On The Weight Of The Argument. Indeed The Authority Of Those Who Set Out To Teach Is Often An Impediment To Those Who Wish To Learn. They Cease To Use Their Own Judgment And Regard As Gospel Whatever Is Put Forward By Their Chosen Teacher.

Nobody Can Give You Wiser Advice Than Yourself; You Will Never Err If You Listen To Your Own Suggestions.

Nothing In Oratory Is More Important Than To Win For The Orator The Favour Of His Hearer, And To Have The Latter So Affected As To Be Swayed By Something Resembling An Impulse Of The Spirit Impetu Quodam Animi Or Emotion Perturbatione, Rather Than By Judgment Or Deliberation. For Men Decide Far More Problems By Hate, Or Love, Or Lust, Or Rage, Or Sorrow, Or Joy, Or Hope, Or Fear, Or Illusion, Or Some Other Inward Emotion Aliqua Permotione Mentis, Than By Reality Or Authority, Or Any Legal Standard, Or Judicial Precedent Or Statute.

It Is The Soul Itself Which Sees And Hears, And Not Those Parts Which Are, As It Were, But Windows To The Soul.

Window To The Soul

Time Destroys The Speculation Of Men, But It Confirms Nature.

Fewer Possess Virtue, Than Those Who Wish Us To Believe That They Possess It.

Even The Ablest Pilots Are Willing To Receive Advice From Passengers In Tempestuous Weather.

By Hercules! I Prefer To Err With Plato, Whom I Know How Much You Value, Than To Be Right In The Company Of Such Men.

The Real Friend Is Another Self.

The Proof Of A Well-trained Mind Is That It Rejoices In Which Is Good And Grieves At The Opposite.

The Roots Of Knowledge Are Bitter, But Its Fruit Are Sweet.

That Which Leads Us To The Performance Of Duty By Offering Pleasure As Its Reward, Is Not Virtue, But A Deceptive Copy And Imitation Of Virtue. [lat., Nam Quae Voluptate, Quasi Mercede Aliqua, Ad Officium Impellitur, Ea Non Est Virtus Sed Fallax Imitatio Simulatioque Virtutis.]

As Thou Sowest, So Shalt Thou Reap.

Certain Signs Precede Certain Events.

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

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

There Is No Fortune So Strong That Money Cannot Take It.

There Is Wickedness In The Intention Of Wickedness, Even Though It Be Not Perpetrated In The Act.

The Whole Glory Of Virtue Resides In Activity.

Care Must Be Taken That The Punishment Does Not Exceed The Offence.

No Sensible Man (among The Many Things That Have Been Written On This Kind) Ever Imputed Inconsistency To Another For Changing His Mind. [lat., Nemo Doctus Unquam (multa Autem De Hoc Genere Scripta Sunt) Mutationem Consili Inconstantiam Dixit Esse.]

Each Part Of Life Has Its Own Pleasures. Each Has Its Own Abundant Harvest, To Be Garnered In Season. We May Grow Old In Body, But We Need Never Grow Old In Mind And Spirit. No One Is As Old As To Think He Or She Cannot Live One More Year.

Who Does Not Know That The First Law Of Historical Writing Is The Truth.

Time Puts An End To Speculation In Opinions, And Confirms The Laws Of Nature.

A Liar Is Not Believed Even Though He Tell The Truth.

Telling The Truth

The Last Day Does Not Bring Extinction To Us, But Change Of Place. [lat., Supremus Ille Dies Non Nostri Extinctionem Sed Commutationem Affert Loci.]

Let A Man Practise The Profession He Best Knows. [lat., Quam Quisque Novit Artem, In Hac Se Exerceat.]

Now In Regard To Trades And Other Means Of Livelihood, Which Ones Are To Be Considered Becoming To A Gentleman And Which Ones Are Vulgar, We Have Been Taught, In General, As Follows. First, Those Means Of Livelihood Are Rejected As Undesirable Which Incur People's Ill-will, As Those Of Tax-gatherers And Usurers. Unbecoming To A Gentleman, Too, And Vulgar Are The Means Of Livelihood Of All Hired Workmen Whom We Pay For Mere Manual Labour, Not For Artistic Skill; For In Their Case The Very Wage They Receive Is A Pledge Of Their Slavery.

He Removes The Greatest Ornament Of Friendship Who Takes Away From It Respect.

Borrowing From Peter To Pay Paul.

Never Injure A Friend, Even In Jest.

The Dutifulness Of Children Is The Foundation Of All Virtues.

Let Flattery, The Handmaid Of The Vices, Be Far Removed .

What An Ugly Beast The Ape, And How Like Us.

Diligence Which, As It Avails In All Things, Is Also Of The Utmost Moment In Pleading Causes. Diligence Is To Be Particularly Cultivated By Us; It Is To Be Constantly Exerted; It Is Capable Of Effecting Almost Everything.

The Whole Of Virtue Consists In Its Practice.

If I Am Mistaken In My Opinion That The Human Soul Is Immortal, I Willingly Err; Nor Would I Have This Pleasant Error Extorted From Me; And If, As Some Minute Philosophers Suppose, Death Should Deprive Me Of My Being, I Need Not Fear The Raillery Of Those Pretended Philosophers When They Are No More.

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.

So It May Well Be Believed That When I Found Him Taking A Complete Holiday, With A Vast Supply Of Books At Command, He Had The Air Of Indulging In A Literary Debauch, If The Term May Be Applied To So Honorable An Occupation.

The Avarice Of The Old: It's Absurd To Increase One's Luggage As One Nears The Journey's End.

Silent Enim Leges Inter Arma (laws Are Silent In Times Of War).

Rather Leave The Crime Of The Guilty Unpunished Than Condemn The Innocent.

What Is There That Is Illustrious That Is Not Also Attended By Labor?

No Man In His Senses Will Dance.

I Cannot Find A Faithful Message-bearer," He Wrote To His Friend, The Scholar Atticus. "how Few Are They Who Are Able To Carry A Rather Weighty Letter Without Lightening It By Reading.

Rightly Defined Philosophy Is Simply The Love Of Wisdom.

The Home Is The Empire! There Is No Peace More Delightful Than One's Own Fireplace.

Let The Welfare Of The People Be The Ultimate Law.

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

It Is A Crime To Put A Roman Citizen In Chains, It Is An Enormity To Flog One, Sheer Murder To Slay One: What, Then, Shall I Say Of Crucifixion? It Is Impossible To Find The Word For Such An Abomination.

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.

To Wonder At Nothing When It Happens, To Consider Nothing Impossible Before It Has Come To Pass.

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

We Ought To Regard Amiability As The Quality Of Woman, Dignity That Of Man.

This Is The Truth: As From A Fire Aflame Thousands Of Sparks Come Forth, Even So From The Creator An Infinity Of Beings Have Life And To Him Return Again.

History Is The Teacher Of Life

You Must Therefore Love Me, Myself, And Not My Circumstances, If We Are To Be Real Friends.

Sound Conviction Should Influence Us Rather Than Public Opinion.

The Long Time To Come When I Shall Not Exist Has More Effect On Me Than This Short Present Time, Which Nevertheless Seems Endless.

It Is Not Easy To Distinguish Between True And False Affection, Unless There Occur One Of Those Crises In Which, As Gold Is Tried By Fire, So A Faithful Friendship May Be Tested By Danger.

It Is Certain That Memory Contains Not Only Philosophy, But All The Arts And All That Appertain To The Use Of Life.

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

Let The Punishment Be Proportionate To The Offense.

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

Leisure With Dignity.

Justice Consists In Doing No Injury To Men; Decency In Giving Them No Offense.

Offense And Defense

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.

The Contemplation Of Celestial Things Will Make A Man Both Speak And Think More Sublimely And Magnificently When He Descends To Human Affairs.

To Stumble Twice Against The Same Stone, Is A Proverbial Disgrace. [lat., Culpa Enim Illa, Bis Ad Eundem, Vulgari Reprehensa Proverbio Est.]

In The Conduct Of Almost Every Affair Slowness And Procrastination Are Hateful

Procrastination

The Foundations Of Justice Are That On One Shall Suffer Wrong; Then, That The Public Good Be Promoted.

Quo Usque Tandem Abutere, Catilina, Patientia Nostra? In Heaven's Name,catiline, How Long Will You Abuse Ourpatience?

Study Carefully, The Character Of The One You Recommend, Lest Their Misconduct Bring You Shame.

Grief Is Not In The Nature Of Things, But In Opinion.

Vivere Est Cogitare. (to Think Is To Live)

It Is Difficult To Set Bounds To The Price Unless You First Set Bounds To The Wish.

Though Liberty Is Established By Law, We Must Be Vigilant, For Liberty To Enslave Us Is Always Present Under That Very Liberty. Our Constitution Speaks Of The "general Welfare Of The People." Under That Phrase All Sorts Of Excesses Can Be Employed By Lusting Tyrants To Make Us Bondsmen.

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. . . ."

Your Enemies Can Kill You, But Only Your Friends Can Hurt You.

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