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If it is not right, do not do it, if it is not true, do not say it. For let thy efforts be.
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If it is not right, do not do it, if it is not true, do not say it. For let thy efforts be.
Adorn thyself with simplicity and with indifference towards the things which lie between virtue and vice. Love mankind. Follow God. The poet says that Law rules all. And it is enough to remember that law rules all.
Character is the virtue of hard times.
The world is a wheel, and it will all come round right.
Nothing great is done without great men, and they are great because they wanted it.
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
The difference between a brave man and a coward is a coward thinks twice before jumping in the cage with a lion. The brave man doesn't know what a lion is. He just thinks he does.
Rules necessary for definitions. Not to leave any terms at all obscure or ambiguous without definition; Not to employ in definitions any but terms perfectly known or already explained.
In things that a man would not be seen in himself, it is a point of cunning to borrow the name of the world; as to say, "The world says," or "There is a speech abroad."