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It becomes a matter to be put to the test of battle, when someone makes a conjunction of a word which belongs in the bailiwick of the adverbs.

For if by chance some woman wishes to be thought of as wise, she does nothing but show herself twice a fool.

For what that passes among mortals everywhere is not full of folly, done be fools in the presence of fools?

Your library is your paradise.

The desire to write grows with writing.

Bidden or unbidden, God is present.

Again what city ever received Plato's or Aristotle's laws, or Socrates' precepts? But,

He who allows oppression shares the crime.

There are others who are rich only in wishes; they build beautiful air-castles and conceive that doing so is enough for happiness.

for self-love is no more than the soothing of a man's self, which, done to another, is flattery. And

For what is there at all done among men that is not full of folly, and that too from fools and to fools? Against

He may lawfully praise himself that lives far from neighbors." Though,