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- For the mind does not require filling like a bottle, but rather, like wood, it only requires kindling to create in it an impulse to…
- If you declare that you are naturally designed for such a diet, then first kill for yourself what you want to eat. Do it, however,…
- 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…
- Note that the eating of flesh is not only physically against nature, but it also makes us spiritually coarse and gross by reason of satiety…
- To the Greeks, the supreme function of music was to "praise the gods and educate the youth". In Egypt... Initiatory music was heard only in…
- A good man will take care of his horses and dogs, not only while they are young, but also when they are old and past…
- Were it only to learn benevolence to humankind, we should be merciful to other creatures.
- 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…
- 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…
- The present offers itself to our touch for only an instant of time and then eludes the senses.
- Statesmen are not only liable to give an account of what they say or do in public, but there is a busy inquiry made into…
- As to Caesar, when he was called upon, he gave no testimony against Clodius, nor did he affirm that he was certain of any injury…
- Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
- It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the one is only…
- Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to.
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