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Everything in the world is purchased by labor.
A great cause of the night is lack of the sun.
Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.
Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider.
Reason in man is rather like God in the world.
Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.
The past has no power over the present moment.
Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.
I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts.
Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.
We must act out passion before we can feel it.
No obligation to do the impossible is binding.
I don't trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
Attention to health is life greatest hindrance.
We are like snails, each stuck to his own leaf.
God bless America. But God, please help Canada.
The more I go into I, the more I fall out of I.
To live happily is an inward power of the soul.
A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.
Time meanwhile is flying, flying beyond recall.
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
One man cannot practice many arts with success.
I shall assume that your silence gives consent.
Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.
Men often act knowingly against their interest.
Study the past, if you would divine the future.
Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination.
Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
We all can be only who we are, no more, no less.
I see I have made my self a slave to Philosophy.
Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.
The man who renounces himself, comes to himself.
Philosophy is the science which considers truth.
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.
There is no possible source of evil except good.
Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?
Where there is no property there is no injustice.
The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.
There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap.
I only know one thing, and that is I know nothing
Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
Light, seeking light, doth light of light beguile
Never was anything great achieved without danger.
No advantages in this world are pure and unmixed.
Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.
The essence of genius is to know what to overlook.
The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.