Your silence gives consent.

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Abstinence is the surety of temperance

Abstinence is the surety of temperance

They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases.

They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases.

Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be...

Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be...

Democracy passes into despotism.

Democracy passes into despotism.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

For let me tell you, that the more the pleasures of the body fade away,...

For let me tell you, that the more the pleasures of the body fade away,...

Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.

Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.

Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.

Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.

Even the gods love jokes.

Even the gods love jokes.

The good is the beautiful.

The good is the beautiful.

Someday, in the distant future, our grandchildren's grandchildren will develop a new equivalent of our...

Someday, in the distant future, our grandchildren's grandchildren will develop a new equivalent of our...

I have good hope that there is something after death.

I have good hope that there is something after death.

There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till...

There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till...

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come...

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come...

The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear...

The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear...

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

There's a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst...

There's a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst...

He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.

He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.