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Virtue is increased by the smile of approval; and the love of renown is the greatest incentive to honourable acts. - [Proverbs] We are born poets. we become orators. - [Proverbs] We are not born for ourselves alone. - [Proverbs] We believe not a liar, even when he is speaking the truth. - [Proverbs] We cannot employ the mind to advantage when we are filled with excessive food and drink. - [Excess] We have been born to associate with our fellow-men, and to join in community with the human race. - [Companions] We make allowance for necessity. - [Proverbs] We ought to regard amiability as the quality of woman, dignity that of man. - [Amiability] We should all endure our own grievances rather than detract from the comforts of others. - [Proverbs] What gift has Providence bestowed on man, that is so dear to him as his children? - [Children] What is becoming is honest, and whatever is honest must always be becoming. - [Honesty] What is there that is illustrious that is not also attended by labor? - [Labor] What sweeter gift from nature has fallen to the lot of man than his children? - [Proverbs] Whatever is graceful is virtuous, and whatever is virtuous is graceful. - [Grace] When I consider the wonderful activity of the mind, so great a memory of what is past, and such a capacity of penetrating into the future: when I behold such a number of arts and sciences, and such a multitude of discoveries hence arising,--I believe and am firmly persuaded that a nature which contains so many things within itself cannot be mortal. - [Immortality] When money is unreasonably coveted, it is a disease of the mind which is called avarice. - [Avarice] When war is raging the laws are dumb. - [Proverbs] Who can love the man he fears. or by who he thinks he is himself feared? - [Proverbs] Who is there that, shooting all day long, does not sometimes hit the mark? - [Proverbs] Wickedness consists in the very hesitation about an act, even though it be not perpetrated. - [Guilt] Wisdom is not only to be acquired, but enjoyed. - [Proverbs] Wisdom often exists under a shabby coat. - [Proverbs] Wise men are instructed by reason; men of less understanding, by experience; the most ignorant, by necessity; and beasts, by nature. - [Reason] Unraveling the web of Penelope. [Lat., Penelopae telam retexens.] - Acad. Quoest. (bk. IV, 29, 95) [Work] So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge. [Lat., Ita enim finitima sunt falsa veris ut in praecipitem locum non debeat se sapiens committere.] - Academici (IV, 21) [Lying] Displaying page 8 of 16 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 [8] 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
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