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"Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them."

"Education is the best provision for old age."

"A true friend is one soul in two bodies."

"Friendship is essentially a partnership."

"In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds."

"To the query, ''What is a friend?'' his reply was ''A single soul dwelling in two bodies.''"

"What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies."

"There is no great genius without a mixture of madness."

"Hope is the dream of a waking man."

"No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness."

"The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom."

"The end of labor is to gain leisure."

"It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully."

"The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit."

"Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind."

"This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own."

"The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain."

"Homer has taught all other poets the are of telling lies skillfully."

"Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular."

"The soul never thinks without a picture."

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