We are inclined to call things by the wrong names. We call prosperity 'happiness', and adversity 'misery' eventhough adversity is the school of wisdom and often the way to eternal happiness.

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Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.

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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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Let us see what love can do.

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Peace can only be secured by justice; never by force of arms.

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The Remedy often proves worse than the Disease.

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Silence is Wisdom where Speaking is Folly.

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In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.

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No people can be truly happy... if abridged of the freedom of their consciences

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People are more afraid of the laws of Man than of God, because their punishment seems to be nearest.

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