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Obscurity is dispelled by augmenting the light of discernment, not by attacking the darkness.
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Do not go through life like leaf blown from here to there believing whatever you are told.
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A painter will paint a cobbler, carpenter, or any other artist, though he knows nothing of their arts and, if he is a good artist, he may deceive children or simple persons, when he shows them his picture of a carpenter from a distance, and they will fancy that they are looking at a real carpenter.
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The understanding of mathematics is necessary for a sound grasp of ethics.
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To them, I said, the truth would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images.
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All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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The greatest flood has the soonest ebb the sorest tempest the most sudden calm the hottest love the coldest end and from the deepest desire oftentimes ensues the deadliest hate.
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See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all.
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Some have courage in pleasures, and some in pains: some in desires, and some in fears, and some are cowards under the same conditions.
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If we pursue our habit of eating animals, and if our neighbour follows a similar path, will we need to go to war against our neighbour to secure greater pasturage, because ours will not be enough to sustain us, and our neighbour will have a similar need to wage war on us for the same reason.
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There is no learning without remembering.
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Why should I resent it when an ass kicks me?
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Aren't you ashamed to be concerned so much about making all the money you can and advancing your reputation and prestige, while for truth and wisdom and the improvement of your souls you have no thought or car?
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One thing I know, that I know nothing. This is the source of my wisdom.
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The soul is cured of its maladies by certain incantations these incantations are beautiful reasons, from which temperance is generated in souls.
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Marry or marry not, in any either case you'll regret it
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People learn more on their own rather than being force fed.
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It is not the purpose of a juryman's office to give justice as a favor to whoever seems good to him, but to judge according to law, and this he has sworn to do.
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Remember what is unbecoming to do is also unbecoming to speak of.
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I believe that we cannot live better than in seeking to become better, nor more agreeably than having a clear conscience.
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