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The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.

Laws should be interpreted in a liberal sense so that their intention may be preserved.

In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.

The sinews of war are infinite money.

Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.

Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.

What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.

There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.

Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.

Never injure a friend, even in jest.

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.

Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.

Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.

Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.

No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.