We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away.
From Plutarch
The wildest colts make the best horses.
The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil.
Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.
No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.
Neither blame or praise yourself.
A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.
It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.
The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits.
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