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A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a ha...  
All wealth is the product of labor.  
An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A v...  
As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.  
Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflecti...  
Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to...  
Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.  
Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.  
I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for...  
I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of thei...  
I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic mo...  
If we will disbelieve everything, because we cannot certainly know all...  
It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach.  
It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, thoug...  
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without anyoth...  
No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.  
One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposi...  
Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds,...  
Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; ...  
Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have p...  
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thi...  
Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard o...  
The discipline of desire is the background of character.  
The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own incre...  
The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.  
The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their pro...  
There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the curr...  
There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions o...  
To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human...  
To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not...  
We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken...  
Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth a...  
Where there is no property there is no injustice.