In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.

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Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them, and as governments are made and moved by men, so by them they are ruined too. Wherefore governments rather depend upon men, than men upon governments. Let men be good, and the government cannot be bad; if it be ill, they will cure it. But if men be bad, let the government be never so good, they will endeavour to warp and spoil it to their turn.

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In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest.

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Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise.

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Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

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Silence is Wisdom where Speaking is Folly.

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They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies.

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Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.

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I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.

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The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.

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