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Medicine to produce health must examine disease and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.
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Nothing exists in the intellect that has not first gone through the senses.
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Good fortune will elevate even petty minds, and give them the appearance of a certain greatness and stateliness, as from their high place they look down upon the world but the truly noble and resolved spirit raises itself, and becomes more conspicuous in times of disaster and ill fortune.
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Aristodemus, a friend of Antigonus, supposed to be a cook's son, advised him to moderate his gifts and expenses. Thy words, said he, Aristodemus, smell of the apron.
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There is no perfecter endowment in man than political virtue.
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When Darius offered him ten thousand talents, and to divide Asia equally with him, I would accept it, said Parmenio, were I Alexander. And so truly would I, said Alexander, if I were Parmenio. But he answered Darius that the earth could not bear two suns, nor Asia two kings.
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Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.
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Scilurus on his death-bed, being about to leave four-score sons surviving, offered a bundle of darts to each of them, and bade them break them. When all refused, drawing out one by one, he easily broke them, thus teaching them that if they held together, they would continue strong but if they fell out and were divided, they would become weak.
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Philosophy is the art of living.
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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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Wickedness frames the engines of her own torment. She is a wonderful artisan of a miserable life.
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For, in the language of Heraclitus, the virtuous soul is pure and unmixed light, springing from the body as a flash of lightning darts from the cloud. But the soul that is carnal and immersed in sense, like a heavy and dank vapor, can with difficulty be kindled, and caused to raise its eyes heavenward.
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Agesilaus was very fond of his children and it is reported that once toying with them he got astride upon a reed as upon a horse, and rode about the room and being seen by one of his friends, he desired him not to speak of it till he had children of his own.
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Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.
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Pythagoras, when he was asked what time was, answered that it was the soul of this world.
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Were it only to learn benevolence to humankind, we should be merciful to other creatures.
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Among real friends there is no rivalry or jealousy of one another, but they are satisfied and contented alike whether they are equal or one of them is superior.
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Epaminondas is reported wittily to have said of a good man that died about the time of the battle of Leuctra, How came he to have so much leisure as to die, when there was so much stirring?
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Painting is silent poetry.
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It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration, it is a very easy matter but to produce a better in it's place is a work extremely troublesome.
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