All noble things are as difficult as they are rare.

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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.

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Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.

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Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.

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God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.

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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.

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He who loves God cannot endeavor that God should love him in return.

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Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.

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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

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