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Like, according to the old proverb, naturally goes with like. [Lat., Pares autem vetere proverbio,...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO)
Aye, well, I've got my garden.
LIKE I
I told my Nike representative, 'Why didn't you guys use me for this?''' Williams said, laughing.
LIKE I
On the interception, I was out of bounds,
LIKE I
casually made his 'abort black fetuses' argument.
LIKE I
I can field my position. If I start worrying about being ready for a line drive too soon that means ...
LIKE I
I told him that he played a great game,'' said Falcons quarterback Michael Vick , who like Manning w...
LIKE I
I was so concerned with getting the ball out of my hands and not taking the sack, that sometimes I t...
LIKE I
I knew I had to throw the ball better,'' Manning said of his poor start.
LIKE I
I think the reason that I have that title or that moniker is because people don't know what to expec...
LIKE I
You're either ready and prepared to take on the task, or you're not,'' he said.
LIKE I
I did not have one butterfly out there today,'' he said.
LIKE I
Married to the Mob.
LIKE I
Hello you're with Drudge.
LIKE I
I don't expect Christian Fundamentalists to reach out to me. They are adamant that homosexuals are i...
LIKE I
throw enough shit at the wall and some should stick?
LIKE I
I'm not happy, that's all I can say about it,'' he said.
LIKE I
The beginning, as the proverb says, is half the whole
ARISTOTLE
Yet as the proverb says, 'In vino veritas,' whether with boys, or without them (In allusion to two p...
PLATO
What makes it different is the fact the fuels burn so readily. They burn -- it's an old cliché -- l...
JIM WILKINS
Better ride safe in the dark, says the proverb, than in the daylight with a cut-throat at your elbow
SIR WALTER SCOTT
Never too old to learn. -Latin proverb.
LATIN PROVERB
There's an old Chinese proverb that says the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. ...
FLORENCE HENDERSON
Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
Learning is like a boundless sea, only diligence can reach the shore. - Chinese proverb
CHINESE PROVERB
There's an old African proverb that I have on my desk that says a lot about partnerships. If you wan...
PATTY STONESIFER
As far as R&B, I listen to a lot of old school like the Temptations and Chris Brown.
JACOB LATIMORE
Chinese proverb says that a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. This journey had ...
ASPEN MATIS
He always calls himself the old guy. He says, 'All right guys, the old guy's in here, we might need ...
CASEY RABACH
The gyms you go to are crowded with guys trying to look like men, as being a man means looking the w...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
We get too soon old and too late smart. -Pennsylvania Dutch proverb.
PENNSYLVANIA DUTCH PROVERB
Ama ne yazık ki tarihte hep aynı trajedi tekrarlanmaktadır, çünkü fikir adamları zamanı geli...
STEFAN ZWEIG
probability is the very guide of life
LEONARD MLODINOW
As the Spanish proverb says, He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry the wealth...
SAMUEL JOHNSON
As the Spanish proverb says, "He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry the wealt...
SAMUEL JOHNSON
Write in such a way as that you can be readily understood by both the young and the old, by men as w...
HO CHI MINH
Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.
GEORGE GISSING
Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.
GEORGE ROBERT GISSING
The happiness of many marriages is founded on the old proverb: Suspicion doesn’t amount to convict...
MAX PALLENBERG
Men grow old, pearls grow yellow, there is no cure for it. -Chinese proverb.
CHINESE PROVERB
People like to be around him. He's a great kid, and he readily accepts the coaching.
DANNY STRUCK
Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool.
DEAN KOONTZ
Take the dead from the dead, the old proverb said; only a corpse may speak true prophecy.
STEPHEN KING
Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts
MICHELANGELO
The happiness of many marriages is founded on the old proverb: Suspicion doesn’t amount to convicti...
MAX PALLENBERG
I like to think of it as keeping the Old World charm but updating it with modern conveniences,
BILLY ROSE
I like to think of it as keeping the Old World charm but updating it with modern conveniences.
BILLY ROSE
I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.
IRENE MAYER SELZNICK
I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.
CHARLES LAMB
I'm not comfortable with just entertaining. Although I like entertaining, I also like bringing forwa...
SERJ TANKIAN
The man who will live above his present circumstances, is in great danger of soon living beneath the...
JOSEPH ADDISON
The man who will live above his present circumstances, is in great danger of soon living beneath the...
JOSEPH ADDISON
As soon as someone like me or David Lynch pops up everyone says hallelujah, how weird.
ROBYN HITCHCOCK
We, as old timers, feel like we're being used.
BOB KENNEY
Defaults occur at least three times as readily -- in some instances, four times as readily -- on (su...
JONATHAN GRAY
I like gettin' old.
PATTI SMITH
Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught tha...
HERMAN MELVILLE
Nothing is as burdensome as a secret. French Proverb
FRENCH PROVERB
A wicked book cannot repent.
OLD PROVERB
Calvin was as near like the God of the Old Testament as his health permitted
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
I'm not a fan of 'Gone With the Wind.' I didn't like the movie. I didn't like th...
OCTAVIA SPENCER
Whatever you teach, be brief; what is quickly said the mind readily receives and faithfully retains,...
PROVERB
There is no power like oratory. Caesar controlled men by exciting their fears, Cicero by . . . swayi...
HENRY CLAY
Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.
MICHELANGELO
I think it's more readily available to students. There was nothing like that when we were small.
DELILAH SUE BRASHEAR
Soybeans really need an uplift, being on the dull side, but, like dull people, respond readily to th...
IRMA S. ROMBAUER
Maybe it's like Mac says. Ever man winds up with the horse that suits him.
CORMAC MCCARTHY
There exists a law, not written down anywhere, but inborn in our hearts, a law which comes to us not...
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO
There is no power like that of true oratory. Caesar controlled men by exciting their fears; Cicero, ...
HENRY CLAY
…for when men labor they keep out of mischief. You remember the old proverb--An idle mind is the D...
GEORGE Q. CANNON
…for when men labor they keep out of mischief. You remember the old proverb--An idle mind is the De...
GEORGE Q. CANNON
The film begins with the title card from an Old Arabian Proverb: And the Prophet said, 'And lo, the ...
MOVIE
I feel like I'm 18, with the maturity level of like a 14-year-old. I'm still the same goofba...
DUFF GOLDMAN
Life is so, so short. Bible says it's like a vapor.
MUHAMMAD ALI
The problem with Bush is that yes, he's religious in a fundamentalist sort of way, they read the...
BRUCE KENT
I was obsessed with Chubby Checker and old dances, like the twist.
LAURIEANN GIBSON
Honesty, like my mama always says, is always the best policy.
KELLY ROWLAND
A woman tells her doctor, 'I've got a bad back.' The doctor says, 'It's old age.' The woman says, 'I...
TOMMY COOPER
People are very open-minded about new things - as long as they're exactly like the old ones.
CHARLES F. KETTERING
People are very open-minded about new things--as long as they're exactly like the old ones.
CHARLES F. KETTERING
The problem with taking amps to a shop is that they come back sounding like another amp.
STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN
The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer.
JOAN COLLINS
Like our motto says, that's how we're going to approach it. As a football team, we like challenges, ...
DUSTIN ALMOND
Italy, a paradise for horses, hell for women, as the proverb goes
ROBERT BURTON
People are very open-minded about new things. As long as they are exactly like the old ones.
CHARLES FRANKLIN KETTERING
The New Testament, compared with the Old, is like a farce of one act
THOMAS PAINE
It's not like there's five tankers on the Mississippi River with the old stuff.
DAVE SYKUTA
Cicero smiled at us. 'The art of life is to deal with problems as they arise, rather than destory on...
ROBERT HARRIS
As the Arab proverb says, The dog barks and the caravan passes. After having dropped this quotation,...
MARCEL PROUST
No dreams, no visions, no delicious fantasies, no castles in the air, with which, as the old song so...
WILLIAM OSLER
The defects of the understanding, like those of the face, grow worse as we grow old.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense o...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES
Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense o...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, SR.
May as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb. English Proverb
ENGLISH PROVERB
It's the way he says my name: like music.
LAUREN OLIVER
I like physical comedy. And I like the old comedies.
PATRICK DEMPSEY
At the most one could say that his chi or ... personal god was good. But the Ibo people have a prove...
CHINUA ACHEBE
Hence as the poet says: People in love cannot be moved by kindness, And opposition makes them feel l...
C.S. LEWIS
Our consciences are littered like an old attic with the junk of sheer conviction.
WILFORD O. CROSS
More than anything else, I'd like to be an old man with a good face, like Hitchcock or Picasso.
SEAN CONNERY

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Nothing so cements and holds together all the parts of a society as faith or credit, which can never...
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When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's minds take in quickly what you say, learn its less...
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The most desirable thing in life after health and modest means is leisure with dignity.
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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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Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.
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Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.
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A room without books is like a body without a soul.
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Virtue is its own reward.
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He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.
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Man is his own worst enemy.
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Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.
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True glory strikes root, and even extends itself; all false pretensions fall as do flowers, nor can ...
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He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.
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Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinio...
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A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
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Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.
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Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.
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The causes of events are ever more interresting than the events themselves.
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Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sac...
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The greatest incitement to guilt is the hope of sinning with impunity.
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There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.
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A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him.
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We are in bondage to the law so that we might be free.
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When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
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Hatred is settled anger.
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There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness.
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There are some duties we owe even to those who have wronged us. There is, after all, a limit to retr...
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The first duty of a man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth.
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Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?
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Nature herself makes the wise man rich.
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Endless money forms the sinews of war.
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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
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The welfare of the people is the ultimate law.
(Salus Populi Suprema Est Lex)
CICERO
The strictest law often causes the most serious wrong.
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The people's good is the highest law.
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Law stands mute in the midst of arms.
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Our thoughts are free.
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Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor ...
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Let your desires be ruled by reason.
(Appetitus Rationi Pareat)
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Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.
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The wise are instructed by reason; ordinary minds by experience; the stupid, by necessity; and brute...
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While there's life, there's hope.
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History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory...
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Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.
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We do not destroy religion by destroying superstition.
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Such praise coming from so degraded a source, was degrading to me, its recipient.
CICERO
The freedom of poetic license.
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There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.
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The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference betw...
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Let the punishment match the offense.
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A friend is, as it were, a second self.
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When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson...
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What we call pleasure, and rightly so is the absence of all pain.
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We are obliged to respect, defend and maintain the common bonds of union and fellowship that exist a...
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To each his own.
(Suum Cuique)
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To be content with what one has is the greatest and truest of riches.
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The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, ...
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Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education wit...
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Whatever that be which thinks, understands, wills, and acts. it is something celestial and divine.
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No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for having changed his opinion.
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The national budget must be balanced. The public debt must be reduced; the arrogance of the authorit...
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The avarice of the old: it's absurd to increase one's luggage as one nears the journey's end.
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What a time! What a civilization!
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When you have no basis of argument, abuse the plaintiff.
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By doubting we come at truth.
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To be ignorant of what happened before you were born is to be ever a child. For what is man's lifeti...
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I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.
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It is a true saying that "One falsehood leads easily to another".
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It is a great thing to know our vices.
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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 ...
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In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for hon...
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If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, plac...
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I will go further, and assert that nature without culture can often do more to deserve praise than c...
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He removes the greatest ornament of friendship, who takes away from it respect.
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Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.
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Force overcome by force.
(Vi Victa Vis)
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By force of arms.
(Vi Et Armis)
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Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form r...
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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.
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All action is of the mind and the mirror of the mind is the face, its index the eyes.
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Advice is judged by results, not by intentions.
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A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultiva...
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A life of peace, purity, and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.
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A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
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To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.
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The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends.
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Friendship make prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.
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The evil implanted in man by nature spreads so imperceptibly, when the habit of wrong-doing is unche...
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The absolute good is not a matter of opinion but of nature.
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Strain every nerve to gain your point.
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Reason should direct and appetite obey.
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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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Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of t...
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No one can speak well, unless he thoroughly understands his subject.
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Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.
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Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.
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Let arms give place to the robe, and the laurel of the warriors yield to the tongue of the orator.
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Laws are silent in times of war.
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Superstition is a senseless fear of God.
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Taxes are the sinews of the state.
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There is wickedness in the intention of wickedness, even though it be not perpetrated in the act.
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There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.
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We analyzed information gathered from focus groups, ... From the feedback we received, the groups di...
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The First Bond of Society is Marriage.
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No sane man will dance.
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We were born to unite with our fellow men, and to join in community with the human race.
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They do more harm by their evil example than by their actual sin.
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There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it.
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The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.
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[One recent survey says,] people are tired of news, ... Our minds possess by nature an insatiable de...
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It is hard for the good to suspect evil as it is hard for the bad to suspect good.
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The great thing is that the economic impact stays here and in the state, ... We think Lafayette's a ...
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Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.
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If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
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A nation can survive its fools, even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within....for...
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What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?
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The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the o...
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This wine is forty years old. It certainly doesn't show its age. Latin: Hoc vinum Falernum annorum q...
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Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
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A happy life consists in tranquillity of mind.
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It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others, and to forget his own, ... Yo...
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The soul in sleep gives proof of its divine nature.
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We're serious. This isn't a joke, ... If an entire town changed its name to DISH, you can't buy that...
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I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know. [Lat., Non me pudet fateri ...
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Through ignorance of what is good and what is bad, the life of men is greatly perplexed. [Lat., I...
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Hell is paved with good intentions.
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From all sides there is equally a way to the lower world. [Lat., Undique ad inferos tantundem viae...
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In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men. [Lat., Homines ad d...
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Philosophy is true mother of the arts. (Science) [Lat., Philosophia vero omnium mater artium.]
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Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.
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In the approach to virtue there are many steps. [Lat., In virtute sunt multi adscensus.]
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It is the stain and disgrace of the age to envy virtue, and to be anxious to crush the very flower ...
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Fewer possess virtue, than those who wish us to believe that they possess it. [Lat., Virtute enim...
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Honor is the reward of virtue. [Lat., Honor est premium virtutis.]
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That which leads us to the performance of duty by offering pleasure as its reward, is not virtue, b...
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The more virtuous any man is, the less easily does he suspect others to be vicious. [Lat., Nam ut...
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There are no true friends in politics.
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Nature abhors annihilation. [Lat., Ab interitu naturam abhorrere.]
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Things perfected by nature are better than those finished by art. [Lat., Meliora sunt ea quae natu...
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I am absolutely convinced that no wealth in the world can help humanity forward, even in the hands ...
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Not to be avaricious is money; not to be fond of buying is a revenue; but to be content with our ow...
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The chief recommendation [in a young man] is modesty, then dutiful conduct toward parents, then aff...
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Not only is that an art in knowing a thing, but also a certain art in teaching it. [Lat., Nam non...
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It is difficult to tell how much men's minds are conciliated by a kind manner and gentle speech. ...
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Justice extorts no reward, no kind of price; she is sought, therefore, for her own sake. [Lat., J...
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Justice renders to every one his due. [Lat., Justitia suum cuique distribuit.]
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Extreme justice is extreme injustice. [Lat., Summum jus, summa injuria.]
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Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest. [Lat., Meminerimus etiam adversu...
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The hope of impunity is the greatest inducement to do wrong. [Lat., Maxima illecebra est peccandi ...
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To the sick, while there is life there is hope. [Sp., Aegroto dum anima est, spes est.]
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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind. [Lat., In animi securitate vitam beatam pon...
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It is a common saying that many pecks of salt must be eaten before the duties of friendship can be ...
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There is no treasure the which may be compared unto a faithful friend; Gold some decayeth, and wo...
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You must therefore love me, myself, and not my circumstances, if we are to be real friends.
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A friend is, as it were, a second self. [Lat., Amicus est tanquam alter idem.]
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It is generally said, "Past labors are pleasant," Euripides says, for you all know the Greek verse,...
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Learning is a kind of natural food for the mind. [Lat., Doctrina est ingenii naturale quoddam pabu...
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Let our friends perish, provided that our enemies fall at the same time. [Lat., Pereant amici, du...
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Man is his own worst enemy. [Lat., Nihil inimicius quam sibi ipse.]
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It is disgraceful when the passers-by exclaim, "O ancient house! alas, how unlike is thy present m...
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When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to the second or even the third rank. ...
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The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit. [Lat., Abores ser...
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No well-informed person has declared a change of opinion to be inconstancy. [Lat., Nemo doctus un...
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At whose sight, like the sun, All others with diminish'd lustre shone.
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Like, according to the old proverb, naturally goes with like. [Lat., Pares autem vetere proverbio,...
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By some fortuitous concourse of atoms. [Lat., Fortuito quodam concursu atomorum.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO)
Calumny is only the noise of madmen.
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Nothing is so swift as calumny; nothing is more easily uttered; nothing more readily received; noth...
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No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the hi...
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First things first, second things never.
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The beginnings of all things are small. [Lat., Omnium rerum principia parva sunt.]
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Guilt is present in the very hesitation, even though the deed be not committed. [Lat., In ipsa du...
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The rabble estimate few things according to their real value, most things according to their prejud...
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That he was never less at leisure than when at leisure: nor that he was ever less alone than when a...
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What one has, one ought to use; and whatever he does he should do with all his might. [Lat., Quod...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO)
What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth? [Lat....
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Without your knowledge, the eyes and ears of many will see and watch you, as they have done already...
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In all matters, before beginning, a diligent preparation should be made. [Lat., In omnibus negoti...
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No man was ever great without divine inspiration. [Lat., Nemo vir magnus aliquo afflatu divino unq...
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Precaution is better than cure. [Lat., Praestat cautela quam medela.]
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Prudence is the knowledge of things to be sought, and those to be shunned.
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To err is human, but to persevere in error is only the act of a fool. [Lat., Cujusvis hominis est...
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Our country is wherever we are well off. [Lat., Patria est, ubicunque est bene.]
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But in every matter the consensus of opinion among all nations is to be regarded as the law of natu...
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The diseases of the mind are more and more destructive than those of the body. [Lat., Morbi perni...
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Unraveling the web of Penelope. [Lat., Penelopae telam retexens.]
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He who hangs on the errors of the ignorant multitude, must not be counted among great men. [Lat.,...
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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow. [Lat., Gloria virtutem tanquam umbra sequitur.]
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Like lips like lettuce (i.e. like has met its like). (Lat., Similem habent labra lactucam.]
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Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not s...
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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 o...
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His deeds do not agree with his words. [Lat., Facta ejus cum dictis discrepant.]
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Pleasure blinds (so to speak) the eyes of the mind, and has no fellowship with virtue. [Lat., Vol...
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Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook....
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In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures. [Lat., Omnibus in rebus voluptatibus...
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These (literary) studies are the food of youth, and consolation of age; they adorn prosperity, and ...
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It shows a weak mind not to bear prosperity as well as adversity with moderation. [Lat., Ut adver...
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