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Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their...
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Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a...
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All men have need of the gods.
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Competition between individuals sets one against the other and undermines morale, but competition between...
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Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature...
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The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
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I used to think that the Civil War was our country’s greatest tragedy, but...
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We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
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Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without...
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Truth is shorter than fiction.