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I was not long since in a company where I was not who of my fraternity brought news of a kind of pills, by true account, composed of a hundred and odd several ingredients; whereat we laughed very heartily, and made ourselves good sport; for what rock so hard were able to resist the shock or withstand the force of so thick and numerous a battery?
[ Health ]
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Example is a bright looking-glass, universal and for all shapes to look into.
[ Example ]
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No profession or occupation is more pleasing than the military; a profession or exercise both noble in execution (for the strongest, most generous and proudest of all virtues is true valor) and noble in its cause. No utility either more just or universal than the protection of the repose or defense of the greatness of one's country. The company and daily conversation of so many noble, young and active men cannot but be well-pleasing to you.
[ Military ]
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The word is half his that speaks, and half his that hears it.
[ Listening ]
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The honor of the conquest is rated by the difficulty.
[ Victory ]
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In my opinion, the most fruitful and natural play of the mind is in conversation. I find it sweeter than any other action in life; and if I were forced to choose, I think I would rather lose my sight than my hearing and voice. The study of books is a drowsy and feeble exercise which does not warm you up.
[ Conversation ]
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
[ Conversation ]
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Who feareth to suffer suffereth already, because he feareth.
[ Suffering ]
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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
[ Potential ]
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Habit is second nature.
[ Habit ]
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Confidence in another person's virtue is no light evidence of your own.
[ Confidence ]
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The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
[ Confidence ]
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I quote others in order to better express myself.
[ Quotations ]
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There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.
[ Communication ]
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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
[ Communication ]
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My home...It is my retreat and resting place from wars, I try to keep this corner as a haven against the tempest outside, as I do another corner in my soul.
[ Home ]
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Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm, and yet will make Gods by dozens.
[ Religion ]
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
[ Argument ]
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We need very strong ears to hear ourselves judged frankly, and because there are few who can endure frank criticism without being stung by it, those who venture to criticize us perform a remarkable act of friendship, for to undertake to wound or offend a man for his own good is to have a healthy love for him.
[ Judgment ]
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It is a common seen by experience that excellent memories do often accompany weak judgments.
[ Judgment ]
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