"I have always been of the opinion that
unpopularity earned by doing what is right
is not unpopularity at all,
but glory."

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" What is permissible
is not always honorable."

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" Diseases of the soul
are more dangerous and more numerous
than those of the body."

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" Nothing in more noble,
nothing is more vulnerable
than fidelity.
Faithfulness and truth
are the most sacred excellences and endowments
of the human mind."

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"The shifts of fortune
test the reliability of friends."

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"It is the peculiar quality of a fool
to perceive the faults of others
and to forget his own."

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" The more higher we are placed,
the more humbly we should walk."