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Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
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Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase.
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Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.
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The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down.
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He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.
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If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
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If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition.
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Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds.
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Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength.
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Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.
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The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.
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Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.
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War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.
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The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.
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The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.
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