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"Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words."
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"In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."
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"Let no such man be trusted."
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"We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members."
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"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."
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"There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do."
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"Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts."
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"A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery."
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"If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do."
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"Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude."
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"A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good."
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"It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance."
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"Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature."
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"Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many."
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"I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion."
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"Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men."
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"God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things."
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"Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd."
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"Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone."
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"So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it."
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"Happiness is a virtue, not its reward."
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