Thanks to that regular and temperate course of life I have ever lived, I am still capable of taking an active part in these public scenes of business. In fine, he who fills up every hour of his life in such kind of labors as those I have mentioned, will insensibly slide into old age without perceiving its arrival; and his powers, instead of being suddenly and prematurely extinguished, will gradually decline by the gentle and natural effect of accumulated years.
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The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to human affairs.
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
The countenance is the portrait of the mind, the eyes are its informers.
If a man could mount to heaven and survey the mighty universe, his admiration of its beauties would be much diminished unless he had some one to share in his pleasure.
In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names.
A friend is, as it were, a second self.
To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?
No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.
Justice shines by its own light.
Nothing quite new is perfect.
There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.
Let the punishment match the offense.
Laws are silent in time of war.
The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.
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