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There is no pain in the wound received in the moment of victory.

If you would live innocently, seek solitude.

Avarice is as destitute of what it has, as poverty of what it has not.

There is as much cruelty in pardoning all, as in pardoning none.

He lays up his treasure in a sepulchre who makes an old man his heir.

It is a less evil to be unable to live than not know how to live.

A sentence to death is more tolerable than a command to live wickedly.

An evil conscience is often quiet, but never secure.

Away from your country, though in the midst of friends, you long to return thither again.

When the dog is too old you can not get him used to the collar.

Man's life is short; and therefore an honorable death is his immortality.