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one's self to die

To what friend dare you intrust your griefs

To whom no one is ill who can be good?

Tongue will grow too stiff to bend

Too contemptible to be punished

Torture: rather a trial of patience than of truth

Totally brutified by an immoderate thirst after knowledge

Transferring of money from the right owners to strangers

Travel with not only a necessary, but a handsome equipage

True liberty is to be able to do what a man will with himself

Truly he, with a great effort will shortly say a mighty trifle

Truth itself has not the privilege to be spoken at all times

Truth, that for being older it is none the wiser

Turks have alms and hospitals for beasts

Turn up my eyes to heaven to return thanks, than to crave

Tutor to the ignorance and folly of the first we meet

Twas a happy marriage betwixt a blind wife and a deaf husband

Twenty people prating about him when he is at stool

Two opinions alike, no more than two hairs

Two principal guiding reins are reward and punishment

Tyrannic sourness not to endure a form contrary to one's own

Tyrannical authority physicians usurp over poor creatures

Unbecoming rudeness to carp at everything

Under fortune's favour, to prepare myself for her disgrace

Universal judgments that I see so common, signify nothing

Unjust judges of their actions, as they are of ours

Unjust to exact from me what I do not owe

Upon the precipice, 'tis no matter who gave you the push

Use veils from us the true aspect of things

Utility of living consists not in the length of days

Valour has its bounds as well as other virtues

Valour whetted and enraged by mischance

Valour will cause a trembling in the limbs as well as fear

Valuing the interest of discipline

Vast distinction betwixt devotion and conscience

Venture it upon his neighbour, if he will let him

venture the making ourselves better without any danger

Very idea we invent for their chastity is ridiculous

Vice of confining their belief to their own capacity

Vices will cling together, if a man have not a care

Victorious envied the conquered

Virtue and ambition, unfortunately, seldom lodge together

Virtue is a pleasant and gay quality

Virtue is much strengthened by combats

Virtue refuses facility for a companion

Viscid melting kisses of youthful ardour in my wanton age

Voice and determination of the rabble, the mother of ignorance

Vulgar reports and opinions that drive us on

We are masters of nothing but the will

We are not to judge of counsels by events

We ask most when we bring least

We believe we do not believe

We can never be despised according to our full desert

We cannot be bound beyond what we are able to perform

We confess our ignorance in many things

We consider our death as a very great thing

We do not correct the man we hang; we correct others by him

We do not easily accept the medicine we understand

We do not go, we are driven

We do not so much forsake vices as we change them

We have lived enough for others

We have more curiosity than capacity

We have naturally a fear of pain, but not of death

We have not the thousandth part of ancient writings

We have taught the ladies to blush

We much more aptly imagine an artisan upon his close-stool

We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade

We neither see far forward nor far backward

We only labour to stuff the memory

We ought to grant free passage to diseases

We say a good marriage because no one says to the contrary

We set too much value upon ourselves

We still carry our fetters along with us

We take other men's knowledge and opinions upon trust

Weakness and instability of a private and particular fancy

Weigh, as wise: men should, the burden of obligation

Well, and what if it had been death itself?

Were more ambitious of a great reputation than of a good one

What a man says should be what he thinks

What are become of all our brave philosophical precepts?

What can they not do, what do they fear to do (for beauty)

What can they suffer who do not fear to die?

What did I say? that I have? no, Chremes, I had

What he did by nature

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