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Nothing is to be preferred before justice.
All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
Your descendants shall gather your fruits.
The only secure knowledge is that I exist.
The best interpreter of the law is custom.
Age steals away all things, even the mind.
Newspapers are the second hand of history.
Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.
We live in the best of all possible worlds
You cannot step into the same river twice.
You cannot step twice into the same river.
The possible ranks higher than the actual.
An unjust peace is better than a just war.
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
The good of the people is the greatest law.
The law always limits every power it gives.
For men are not equal: thus speaks justice.
Liberty consists in doing what one desires.
Only the dead have seen the end of the war.
An unexamined life is a life of no account.
Revolutions are the locomotives of history.
Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.
There is no harm in repeating a good thing.
Music is the melody whose text is the world.
Truth springs from argument amongst friends.
What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?
And what is the greatest number? Number one.
Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
Ambition is the immoderate desire for honor.
A home without books is a body without soul.
Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.
For a truly religious man nothing is tragic.
The whole is more than the sum of its parts.
I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano!
Where a man can live, he can also live well.
The only thing I know is that I know nothing
The act of dying is one of the acts of life.
He has committed the crime who profits by it.
Wisest is he who knows what he does not know.
Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.
If we don't know life, how can we know death?
The mere passage of time makes us all exiles.
A confession has to be part of your new life.
What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.
Go forth a conqueror and win great victories.
In everything, there is a share of everything
Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.
Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.
It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.