What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.
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Friendship   
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To be content with what one has is the greatest and truest of riches.
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Wisdom   
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Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly.
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Life   
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Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.
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Habits   
Power   
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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.
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Truth   
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Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.
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Freedom   
Laws   
Power   
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What we call pleasure, and rightly so is the absence of all pain.
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Happiness   
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It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
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Grief   
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Never injure a friend, even in jest.
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Friendship   
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It is a great thing to know our vices.
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Vices   
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Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?
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Children   
Mankind   
Human Nature   
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Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.
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Mind   
Virtue   
Moderation   
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A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.
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Wisdom   
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The wise are instructed by reason; ordinary minds by experience; the stupid, by necessity; and brutes by instinct.
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Wisdom   
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What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?
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Children   
Mankind   
Human Nature   
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If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
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Books   
Flower   
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In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.
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Wisdom   
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By force of arms. (Vi Et Armis)
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War   
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It is a true saying that "One falsehood leads easily to another".
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Wisdom   
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The safety of the people shall be the highest law.
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Laws   
Nation   
Human Nature   
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