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Unity in things necessary, liberty in things doubtful, charity in everything.

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Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.

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Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.

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To harken to evil conversation is the road to wickedness.. (Pravis Assuescere Sermonibus Est Via Ad Rem Ipsam)

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First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.

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He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss.

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The mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it may return the better to thinking.

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The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.

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The man who has received a benefit ought always to remember it, but he who has granted it ought to forget the fact at once.

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May no portent of evil be attached to the words I say.

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