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Choose what is best, and habit will make it pleasant and easy.

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The Epicureans, according to whom animals had no creation, doe suppose that by mutation of one into another, they were first made for they are the substantial part of the world like as Anaxagoras and Euripides affirme in these tearmes: nothing dieth, but in changing as they doe one for another they show sundry formes.
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Proper listening is the foundation of proper living.
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He is a fool who leaves things close at hand to follow what is out of reach.
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It is circumstance and proper measure that give an action its character, and make it either good or bad.
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Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to.
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It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.
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It is no flattery to give a friend a due character for commendation is as much the duty of a friend as reprehension.
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There is never the body of a man, how strong and stout soever, if it be troubled and inflamed, but will take more harm and offense by wine being poured into it.
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The belly has no ears.
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We rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superfluities, and not in those necessary things.
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Whenever Alexander heard Philip had taken any town of importance, or won any signal victory, instead of rejoicing at it altogether, he would tell his companions that his father would anticipate everything, and leave him and them no opportunities of performing great and illustrious actions.
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I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod my shadow does that much better.
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Had I a careful and pleasant companion that should show me my angry face in a glass, I should not at all take it ill to behold man's self so unnaturally disguised and dishonored will conduce not a little to the impeachment of anger.
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I see the cure is not worth the pain.
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