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More men have become great through practice than by nature.
Democritus
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I am the most travelled of all my contemporaries I have extended my field of enquiry wider than anybody else, I have seen more countries and climes, and have heard more speeches of learned men. No one has surpassed me in the composition of lines, according to demonstration, not even the Egyptian knotters of ropes, or geometers.
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You can tell the man who rings true from the man who rings false, not by his deeds alone, but also by his desires.
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