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Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.
If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.
Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.
What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.
A friend is, as it were, a second self.
Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.
Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.
True nobility is exempt from fear.