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The defect of equality is that we desire it only with our superiors.
The hope, and not the fact, of advancement, is the spur to industry.
Only the actions of the just, Smell sweet and blossom in their dust.
Inspiration? - a hoax fabricated by poets for their self-importance.
It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.
Disagreeable suspicions are usually the fruits of a second marriage.
Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?
Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
The fox is very cunning, but he is more cunning who catches the fox.
He is not valiant that dares lie; but he that boldly bears calamity.
He is not valiant that dares die, but he that boldly bears calamity.
It is a crime against the State to be powerful enough to commit one.
He is not only dull in himself, but the cause of dullness in others.
Darwinian man, though well-behaved, at best is only a monkey shaved.
Posterity shall know of me even less than I shall know of posterity.
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.
The whole world and every human being in it is everybody's business.
Go to your business, pleasure, whilst I go to my pleasure, business.
Remember to be submissive, thou art analien, a fugitive, and in need.
Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering.
It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.
Don't you know this, that words are doctors to a diseased temperment?
Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?
Few persons enjoy real liberty; we are all slaves to ideas or habits.
God makes all things good; Man meddles with 'em and they become evil.
I'm armed with more than complete steel, - The justice of my quarrel.
We love peace, as we abhor pusillanimity; but not peace at any price.
Some people are so fond of ill luck that they run halfway to meet it.
His foodWas glory, which was poison to his mindAnd peril to his body.
How little room Do we take up in death, that, living, know No bounds!
Beauty is one of the rare things which does not lead to doubt of God.
It behooves a prudent person to make trial of everything before arms.
Coercion created slavery, the cowardice of the slaves perpetuated it.
He never holds friends firmly who watches only after their own wants.
Woe to him who doesn't know how to wear his mask, be he king or pope!
There is someone who is living my life. And I know nothing about him.
Say, the next time I see you, remind me not to talk to you, will you?
Virgin me no virgins! I must have you lose that name, or you lose me.
He that doth public good for multitudes, finds few are truly grateful
The king, just and prudent, wants only those things which he can get.
A laugh is the loud echo of a sigh; a sigh the faint echo of a laugh.
Women never have young minds. They are born three thousand years old.
You must not be unkind, especially when it happens that you're right.
Ye waves That o'er th' interminable ocean wreathe Your crisped smiles.
There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.
Fortune is for all, judgment is theirs who have won it for themselves.
The heart that once has been your shrine for other loves is too divine
Think not because you are now wed That all your courtship's at an end.
Who hath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.
Of all the paths [that] lead to a woman's love Pity's the straightest.