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• If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh.

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• He who forbids not sin when he may, commands it.

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• The greater part of progress is the desire for progress.

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• The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires.

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• Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.

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• Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

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• He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.

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• He who profits by a crime commits it.

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• Death’s the discharge of our debt of sorrow.

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• A multitude of executions discredits a king, as a multitude of funerals a doctor.

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• Economy is too late at the bottom of the purse.

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• It is extreme evil to depart from the company of the living before you die.

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• The sun also shines on the wicked.

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• Life is neither a good nor an evil: it is a field for good and evil.

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• To greed, all nature is insufficient.

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• He who boasts of his ancestry praises the merits of another.

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• It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it.

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• To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none.

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• While we teach, we learn.

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• Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from life.

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