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The dutifulness of children is the foundation of all virtues. [Lat., Pietas fundamentum est omnium virtutum.]

By some fortuitous concourse of atoms. [Lat., Fortuito quodam concursu atomorum.]

Like, according to the old proverb, naturally goes with like.

At whose sight, like the sun, All others with diminish'd lustre shone.

Like lips like lettuce . (Lat., Similem habent labra lactucam.]

No well-informed person has declared a change of opinion to be inconstancy.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity.

Nothing so cements and holds together all the parts of a society as faith or credit, which can never be kept up unless men are under some force or necessity of honestly paying what they owe to one another.

It is the act of a bad man to deceive by falsehood.

His deeds do not agree with his words.

Prudence must not be expected from a man who is never sober.

Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.

Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.

What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?

Man is his own worst enemy.

Let our friends perish, provided that our enemies fall at the same time.

Man is his own worst enemy.

To err is human, but to persevere in error is only the act of a fool.

By Hercules! I prefer to err with Plato, whom I know how much you value, than to be right in the company of such men.