We can more easily avenge an injury than requite a kindness; on this account, because there is less difficulty in getting the better of the wicked than in making one's self equal with the good.
We can more easily avenge an ...
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Let arms give place to the robe, and the laurel of the warriors yield to the tongue of the orator.
Philosophy is the true mother of science.
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This wine is forty years old. It certainly doesn't show its age.
If you would abolish covetousness, you must abolish its mother, profusion.
