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- The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.
- Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
- O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!
- A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him.
- Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.
- So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.
- Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.
- Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.
- A man of courage is also full of faith.
- Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.
- As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest…
- As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man…
- Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.
- Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.
- No sane man will dance.
- What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?
- Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes.
- Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?
- It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal.
- Justice is the set and constant purpose which gives every man his due.
- There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.
- We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.
- What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?
- It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.
- I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their…
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