“Arms are of little value in the field unless there is wise counsel at home.”
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“Honorable things, not secretive things, are sought by good men.”
“How long will men dare to call anything expedient that is not right?”
“For friendship makes prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.”
“Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.”
“Diseases of the mind are more common and more pernicious than diseases of the body.”
“There is nothing so absurd that it has not been said by some philosopher.”
“Constant practice devoted to one subject often prevails over both ability and skill.”
“Time destroys the figments of the imagination, while confirming the judgments of nature.”
“In all things the greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.”