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Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide. Никогда не ходите в избытке, и пусть умеренность будет вашим ориентиром.
No one can speak well, unless he thoroughly understands his subject. Никто не может говорить, если он плохо понимает свой предмет
Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge. -
Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly. Наша продолжительность жизни коротка, но достаточно долгая для того, чтобы жить хорошо и честно.
Our thoughts are free. Наши мысли свободны.
Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death. -
Reason should direct and appetite obey. -
Strain every nerve to gain your point. Нужно напрячь все силы, чтобы отстоять свою точку зрения.
Such praise coming from so degraded a source, was degrading to me, its recipient. -
That, Senators, is what a favour from gangs amounts to. They refrain from murdering someone; then they boast that they have spared him! -
The absolute good is not a matter of opinion but of nature. -
The evil implanted in man by nature spreads so imperceptibly, when the habit of wrong-doing is unchecked, that he himself can set no limit to his shamelessness. -
The first duty of a man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth. -
The freedom of poetic license. Свобода поэтической вольности.
The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret - that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him.