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An innocent man, if accused, can be acquitted; a guilty man, unless accused, cannot be condemned. It is, however, more advantageous to absolve an innocent than not to prosecute a guilty man.
While all other things are uncertain, evanescent, and ephemeral, virtue alone is fixed with deep roots; it can neither be overthrown by any violence or moved from its place.
The mind becomes accustomed to things by the habitual sight of them, and neither wonders nor inquires about the reasons for things it sees all the time.
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Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.
No sane man will dance.
A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
He who acknowledges a kindness has it still, and he who has a grateful sense of it has requited it.
Tall oaks grow from little acorns.Testing. This is the text of an item. Testing. Origin. Testing. Quoted. Testing. Source. The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit.
Modesty is that feeling by which honorable shame acquires a valuable and lasting authority.
Let war be so carried on that no other object may seem to be sought but the acquisition of peace.
[Lat., Bellum autem ita suscipiatur, ut nihil aliud, nisi pax, quaesita videatur.]
Here is a man whose life and actions the world has already condemned - yet whose enormous fortune...has already brought him acquittal!
Man was born for two things--thinking and acting.
“Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.”
In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.
A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.
The thirst of desire is never filled, nor fully satisfied.
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