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" Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a be general natural law. "
Law
Action
Become
" Action without a name, a 'who' attached to it, is meaningless. "
Who
Action
Meaningless
" A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts. "
Stomach
Thoughts
Fat
" A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept. "
Friend
Kept
Long
" Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most. "
Beauty
Most
Adorned
" Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied. "
Engaged
Devil
May
" Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield. "
Friends
Dying
Seventy
" Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies! "
Moment
Catch
Transient
" Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best. "
Rest
Motivational
Good
" Haste is of the Devil. "
Haste
Devil
" I am like the sick sheep that strays from the rest of the flock. Unless the Good Shepherd takes me on His shoulders and carries me back to His fold, my steps will falter, and in the very effort of rising, my feet will give way. "
I Am
Rest
Me
" I am that prodigal son who wasted all the portion entrusted to me by my father. But I have not yet fallen at my father's knees. I have not yet begun to put away from me the enticements of my former riotous living. "
Father
Son
Me
" It is not enough for us to restrain from doing evil, unless we shall also do good. "
Us
Unless
Good
" Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed. "
Kind
Find
Doing
" Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of Solomon for her godly life. "
Her
First
Daughter
" Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price. "
Price
Affection
Love
" Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night. "
Sleep
Marriage
Who
" My native land is a slave of heathenism, men's god is their belly, and they live only for the present. The richer a man, the holier. "
Men
Man
God
" Someone may ask, 'How is justice greater than all the other virtues?' The other virtues gratify the one who possesses them; justice does not give pleasure to the one possessing it, but instead pleases others. "
Ask
Others
Pleasure
" The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart. "
Mirror
Mind
Face
" The friendship that can cease has never been real. "
Never
Real
Been
" The scars of others should teach us caution. "
Scars
Us
Teach
" They talk like angels but they live like men. "
Like
Men
Talk
" Those who persevere in sin are those who are held in abhorrence by God, but those who abandon the ways of sin are loved by the Lord. "
Lord
Who
Loved
" True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks. "
True Friendship
Friendship
True
" Virginity can be lost by a thought. "
Virginity
Lost
Thought
" What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way. "
Speed
Good
Way
" Why do you not practice what you preach. "
Preach
Practice
Why
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