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The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.
It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.
Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.
Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.
What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.
Freedom is a man’s natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.
In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.
Peace is liberty in tranquillity.
There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.