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"The greatest wealth is to live content with little."

"This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are."

"Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom."

"Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom."

"All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince."

"The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant."

"Moderation, which consists in an indifference about little things, and in a prudent and well-proportioned zeal about things of importance, can proceed from nothing but true knowledge, which has its foundation in self-acquaintance."

"The beginning is the most important part of the work."

"Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation."

"The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort."

"There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot."

"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light."

"Knowledge is true opinion."

"Democracy passes into despotism."

"To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way."

"When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income."

"It is right to give every man his due."

"He was a wise man who invented beer."

"He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden."

"When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them."

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