Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
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Education   
Ability   
Wisdom   
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While there's life, there's hope.
Subject:
Hope & Dreams   
Life   
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He removes the greatest ornament of friendship, who takes away from it respect.
Subject:
Friendship   
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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.
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Wisdom   
Forgiveness   
War   
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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.
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Wisdom   
Vices   
Virtue   
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Let your desires be ruled by reason. (Appetitus Rationi Pareat)
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Wisdom   
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True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.
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Deception   
Struggle   
Victory   
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Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.
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Wisdom   
Health   
Mind   
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The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.
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Wisdom   
Difficulty   
Perseverance   
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Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.
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Gratitude   
Virtue   
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What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?
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Employment   
Teaching   
Nation   
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In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.
Subject:
Character   
Deception   
Ethics   
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The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.
Subject:
Wisdom   
Experience   
Reason   
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As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.
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Age   
Youth   
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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.
Subject:
Life   
Truth   
Spiritual   
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Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.
Subject:
Speech   
Admire   
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Nature abhors annihilation.
Subject:
Nature   
Revenge   
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The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.
Subject:
Wisdom   
Age   
Greatness   
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Advice is judged by results, not by intentions.
Subject:
Advice   
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To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.
Subject:
Wisdom   
Ignorance   
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