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The partisan, when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the rights of the question, but is anxious only to convince his hearers of his own assertions.

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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

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He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.

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When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.

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Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.

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The beginning is the most important part of the work.

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Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.

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Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

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The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.

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Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

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