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Croesus said to Cambyses; That...

Croesus said to Cambyses; That peace was better than war; because in peace the sons did bury their fathers, but in wars the fathers did bury their sons.

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Ask counsel of both timesof th...

Ask counsel of both timesof the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest.

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None of the affections have be...

None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy.

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Let no one think or maintain t...

Let no one think or maintain that a person can search too far or be too well studied in either the book of God's word or the book of God's works.

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It is a secret both in nature ...

It is a secret both in nature and state, that it is safer to change many things than one.

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Atheism leaves a man to sense,...

Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not; but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men-the master of superstition is the people; and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reverse order.

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It's not what we profess but w...

It's not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.

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It is a miserable state of min...

It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear.

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In all negotiations of difficu...

In all negotiations of difficulty, a man may not look to sow and reap at once; but must prepare business, and so ripen it by degrees.

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Always let losers have their w...

Always let losers have their words.

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Judges ought above all to reme...

Judges ought above all to remember the conclusion of the Roman Twelve Tables :The supreme law of all is the weal [weatlh/ well-being] of the people.

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Mahomet made the people believ...

Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him, and from the top of it offer up his prayers for the observers of his law. The people assembled: Mahomet called the hill to come to him again and again; and when the hill stood still, he was never a whit abashed, but said, 'If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill.'

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Libraries are as the shrine wh...

Libraries are as the shrine where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed.

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Why should I be angry with a m...

Why should I be angry with a man for loving himself better than me?

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For what a man would like to b...

For what a man would like to be true, that he more readily believes.

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There was never law, or sect, ...

There was never law, or sect, or opinion did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth.

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The images of mens wits and kn...

The images of mens wits and knowledge remain in books. They generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages

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When a doubt is once received,...

When a doubt is once received, men labour rather how to keep it a doubt still, than how to solve it; and accordingly bend their wits.

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All good moral philosophy is ....

All good moral philosophy is ... but the handmaid to religion.

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Great Hypocrites are the real ...

Great Hypocrites are the real atheists.

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