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" Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged. "

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" He that overvalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them. "

" It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world. "

" We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting. "

" I will be conquered; I will not capitulate. "

" When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live. "

" When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land. "

" Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult. "

" Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and... the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use. "

" A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority. "

" Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him. "

" At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest. "

" My dear friend, clear your mind of cant. "

" Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified. "

" I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him. "

" There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman. "

" No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library. "

" Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles. "

" The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope. "

" Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned. "

" In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it. "

" The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope. "

" There are charms made only for distant admiration. "

" Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost. "

" Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle. "

" Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own. "

" Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it. "

" So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other. "

" It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time. "