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Abstruse questions must have abstruse answers.

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Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus
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If Nature be not improved by instruction, it is blind if instruction be not assisted by Nature, it is maimed and if exercise fail of the assistance of both, it is imperfect.
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It is a difficult task, O citizens, to make speeches to the belly, which has no ears.
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Whenever anything is spoken against you that is not true, do not pass by or despise it because it is false but forthwith examine yourself, and consider what you have said or done that may administer a just occasion of reproof.
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Where two discourse, if the anger of one rises, he is the wise man who lets the contest fall.
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Character is inured habit.
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Instead of using medicine, better fast today.
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Wisdom is neither gold, nor silver, nor fame, nor wealth, nor health, nor strength, nor beauty.
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He [Caesar] loved the treason, but hated the traitor.
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Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
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The drop hollows out the stone not by strength, but by constant falling.
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Grief is natural the absence of all feeling is undesirable, but moderation in grief should be observed, as in the face of all good or evil.
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