Let your desires be ruled by reason. (Appetitus Rationi Pareat)
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Wisdom   
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The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.
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Wisdom   
Age   
Greatness   
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So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.
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Wisdom   
Truth   
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Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.
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God   
Religious   
Spiritual   
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Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.
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Wisdom   
Politics   
Speech   
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Hatred is inveterate anger.
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Anger   
Hate   
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A letter does not blush.
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Argument & Debate   
Emotions   
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Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.
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Argument & Debate   
Speech   
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True nobility is exempt from fear.
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Character   
Fear   
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Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
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Friendship   
Mankind   
Human Nature   
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The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
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Wisdom   
Evil   
Good   
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Sweet is the memory of past troubles.
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Memory   
Struggle   
Suffering   
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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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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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Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.
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Life   
Courage   
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Nature abhors annihilation.
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Nature   
Revenge   
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Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
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Character   
Life   
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It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.
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Fool   
Human Nature   
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When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
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Argument & Debate   
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The more laws, the less justice.
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Wisdom   
Justice   
Laws   
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