Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.

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Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise.

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True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

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Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

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Those who live to live forever, never fear dying.

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Never despise what you don't understand.

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Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.

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They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies.

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I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.

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Inquiry is human; blind obedience brutal. Truth never loses by the one but often suffers by the other.

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