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- The obligations of law and equity reach only to mankind; but kindness and beneficence should be extended to the creatures of every species, and these…
- This excerpt is presented as reproduced by Copernicus in the preface to De Revolutionibus: "Some think that the earth remains at rest. But Philolaus the…
- A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, "Was she not chaste? Was she not fair? Was she not…
- Seeing the lightest and gayest purple was then most in fashion, he would always wear that which was the nearest black; and he would often…
- The first man . . . ventured to call food and nourishment the parts that had a little before bellowed and cried, moved and lived.…
- Since, during storms, flames leap from the humid vapors and dark clouds emit deafening noises, is it surprising the lightning, when it strikes the ground,…
- Mothers ought to bring up and nurse their own children; for they bring them up with greater affection and with greater anxiety, as loving them…
- Nothing can produce so great a serenity of life as a mind free from guilt and kept untainted, not only from actions, but purposes that…
- Nature without learning is blind, learning apart from nature is fractional, and practice in the absence of both is aimless.
- For it was not so much that by means of words I came to a complete understanding of things, as that from things I somehow…
- A Locanian having plucked all the feathers off from a nightingale and seeing what a little body it had, "surely," quoth he, "thou art all…
- To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the…
- Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.
- The worship most acceptable to God comes from a thankful and cheerful heart.
- In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and…
- Distressed valor challenges great respect, even from an enemy.
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