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The saying of old Antigonus, who when he was to fight at Andros, and one told him, The enemy's ships are more than ours, replied, For how many then wilt thou reckon me?
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Talkativeness has another plague attached to it, even curiosity for praters wish to hear much that they may have much to say.
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Character is simply habit long continued.
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Antagoras the poet was boiling a conger, and Antigonus, coming behind him as he was stirring his skillet, said, Do you think, Antagoras, that Homer boiled congers when he wrote the deeds of Agamemnon? Antagoras replied, Do you think, O king, that Agamemnon, when he did such exploits, was a peeping in his army to see who boiled congers?
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As soft wax is apt to take the stamp of the seal, so are the minds of young children to receive the instruction imprinted on them.
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Learn to be pleased with everything...because it could always be worse, but isn't!
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When one told Plistarchus that a notorious railer spoke well of him, I'll lay my life, said he, somebody hath told him I am dead, for he can speak well of no man living.'
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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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He who busies himself in mean occupations, produces in the very pains he takes about things of little or no use, an evidence against himself of his negligence and indisposition to what is really good
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Fortune had favoured me in this war that I feared, the rather, that some tempest would follow so favourable a gale.
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What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.
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Julius Caesar divorced his wife Pompeia, but declared at the trial that he knew nothing of what was alleged against her and Clodius. When asked why, in that case, he had divorced her, he replied: Because I would have the chastity of my wife clear even of suspicion.
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Dionysius the Elder, being asked whether he was at leisure, he replied, God forbid that it should ever befall me!
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Where the lion's skin will not reach, you must patch it out with the fox's.
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Nothing exists in the intellect that has not first gone through the senses.
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Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excellent in them.
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When Demosthenes was asked what was the first part of Oratory, he answered, Action, and which was the second, he replied, action, and which was the third, he still answered Action.
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Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.
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I am whatever was, or is, or will be and my veil no mortal ever took up.
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The soul of man... is a portion or a copy of the soul of the Universe and is joined together on principles and in proportions corresponding to those which govern the Universe.
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