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By force and arms. (Cicero)
What! You would convict me from my own words, and bring against me what I had said or written elsewhere. You may act in that manner with those who dispute by established rules. We live from hand to mouth, and say anything that strikes our mind with probability, so that we are the only people who are really at liberty. View quote
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Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live. View quote
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Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world. View quote
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Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system. View quote
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What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation? View quote
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The spirit is the true self. The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. View quote
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Justice consists of doing no one injury, decency in giving no one offense. View quote
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No obligation to do the impossible is binding. View quote
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The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil. View quote
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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy. (Cicero)
Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion. View quote
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The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free. View quote
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Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law. View quote
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Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself. View quote
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People do not understand what a great revenue economy is. View quote
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Laws should be interpreted in a liberal sense so that their intention may be preserved. View quote
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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty. View quote
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For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends. View quote
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It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error. View quote
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Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason. (Cicero)
Justice is the set and constant purpose which gives every man his due. View quote
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No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone. View quote
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One who sees the Supersoul accompanying the individual soul in all bodies and who understands that neither the soul nor the Supersoul is ever destroyed, actually sees. View quote
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No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration. View quote
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