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... Cicero. Be great in act, as you have been in thought.—Suit the action to the word, and the word to the action.—Shakespeare. We must be doing something to be happy.—Action is no less necessary to us than thought.—Hazlitt. Active natures ...
... Cicero. Be great in act, as you have been in thought.—Suit the action to the word, and the word to the action.—Shakespeare. We must be doing something to be happy.—Action is no less necessary to us than thought.—Hazlitt. Active natures ...
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... levity and weakness.—Cicero. There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an illnatured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.—Sir W. Temple. As we advance in life.
... levity and weakness.—Cicero. There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an illnatured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.—Sir W. Temple. As we advance in life.
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... Cicero. It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats who hide the truth in their hearts, and like jugglers, show another thing in their mouths; to cut all friendships and enmities to the measure of their interest, and put ...
... Cicero. It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats who hide the truth in their hearts, and like jugglers, show another thing in their mouths; to cut all friendships and enmities to the measure of their interest, and put ...
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... Cicero. Good cheer is no hindrance to a good life.—Aristippus. Choose rather to punish your appetites than to be punished by them.— Tyrius Maximus. Animals feed; man eats. Only the man of intellect and judgment knows how to eat.—Savarin ...
... Cicero. Good cheer is no hindrance to a good life.—Aristippus. Choose rather to punish your appetites than to be punished by them.— Tyrius Maximus. Animals feed; man eats. Only the man of intellect and judgment knows how to eat.—Savarin ...
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... .—Young. The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he cornea down to human affairs.—Cicero. Atheism The three great apostles of practical atheism that make.
... .—Young. The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he cornea down to human affairs.—Cicero. Atheism The three great apostles of practical atheism that make.
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