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There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide
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A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best
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The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.
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Into the most pitiful and abject it will infuse a heart and courage to defy the world, so only it have the countenance of the beloved object.
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The laws of friendship are austere and eternal, of one web with the laws of nature and of morals.
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Love, which is the essence of God, is not for levity, but for the total worth of man.
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To accomplish anything excellent, the will must work for catholic and universal ends.
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Work rather for those interests which the divinities honor and promote,--justice, love, freedom, knowledge, utility.