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| The highest virtue found in the tropics is chastity, and in the colder regions, temperance. |
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| The next best thing to being witty is to quote another's wit |
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| The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess |
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| The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it. |
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| There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable. |
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| There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted |
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| They are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers. |
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| To quote copiously and well requires taste, judgment and erudition, a feeling for the beautiful, an appreciation of the noble, and a sense of the profound |
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| Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys. |
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| Truth like the sun, submits to be obscured; but like the sun, only for a time |
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| We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them. |
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| We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none |
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| What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law. |
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| Wine is a treacherous friend who you must always be on guard for. |
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| Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty. |
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