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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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To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.
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If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
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The offender, who repents, is not yet lost.
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Good breeding in cattle depends on physical health, but in men on a well-formed character.
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I would rather discover one true cause than gain the kingdom of Persia.
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Some men are masters of cities, but are enslaved to women.
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More men have become great through practice than by nature.
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Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses.
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Whatever a poet writes with enthusiasm and a divine inspiration is very fine. Earliest reference to the madness or divine inspiration of poets.
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We know nothing in reality for truth lies in an abyss.
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Nature . . . has buried truth deep in the bottom of the sea.
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Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
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The whole Earth is at the hand of the wise man, since the fatherland of an elevated soul is the Universe.
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One great difference between a wise man and a fool is, the former only wishes for what he may possibly obtain the latter desires impossibilities.
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Beautiful objects are wrought by study through effort, but ugly things are reaped automatically without toil.
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It is hard to fight desire but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.
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Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
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These differences, they say, are three: shape, arrangement, and position because they hold that what is differs only in contour, inter-contact, inclination.
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Men will cease to be fools only when they cease to be men.
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