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A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can befall us from without.
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When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
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'We are always doing', says he, 'something for Posterity, but I would fain see Posterity do something for us.
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Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate,no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend, abroad, an introduction, in solitude a solace and in society an ornament.It chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives at once grace and government to genius. Without it, what is man? A splendid slave, a reasoning savage.
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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