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" If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart. "
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" Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence. "
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" True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us. "
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" One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him. "
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" Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued. "
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" The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear. "
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" Beware the barrenness of a busy life. "
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" By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. "
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" If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it. "
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" He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy. "
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" Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant. "
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" Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us. "
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" A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true. "
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" The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. "
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" He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature. "
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" All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine. "
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" Beauty is a short-lived tyranny. "
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" The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be. "
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" I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean. "
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" I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing. "
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" Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for. "
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