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If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable

When a man's busy, why leisure strikes him as wonderful pleasure: faith, and at leisure once is he? Straightaway he wants to be busy

In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike

The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much

Man's desires are limited by his perceptions; none can desire what he has not perceived.

Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained