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It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.
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We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away.
[ Respectability ]
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Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; and with obscurity, for being unenvied.
[ Contentment ]
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Someone praising a man for his foolhardy bravery, Cato, the elder, said, ''There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life.''
[ Praise ]
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To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.
[ History ]
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The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
[ Achievement ]
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Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.
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