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It is not the want, but rather abundance that creates avarice.

He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.

Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.

The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater pleasures.

No wind favors him who has no destined port.

My life has been filled with terrible misfortune; most of which never happened.

The word is half his that speaks, and half his that hears it.

The thing I fear most is fear.

We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

The great and glorious masterpiece of man is how to live with purpose.

The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases.

Once you have decided to keep a certain pile, it is no longer yours; for you can't spend it.

The same reason that makes us chide and brawl and fall out with any of our neighbors, causeth a war to follow between Princes.

All the fame you should look for in life is to have lived it quietly.

Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.

Of all the benefits which virtue confers on us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.

There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.