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It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn.

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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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Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.

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Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.

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Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.

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The gods' service is tolerable, man's intolerable.

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Life must be lived as play.

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I shall assume that your silence gives consent.

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One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

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They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases.

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There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

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I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

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No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

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All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.

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Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.

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The wisest have the most authority.

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Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

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Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.

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Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.

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Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

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