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How many things are there which I do not want.
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A system of morality that is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception that has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
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True perfection is a bold quest to seek. Only the willing and true of heart will seek the betterment of many.
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Admitting one's ignorance is the first step in acquiring knowledge.
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I have lived long enough to learn how much there is I can really do without.... He is nearest to God who needs the fewest things.
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One ought not to return injustice, nor do evil to anybody in the world, no matter what one may have suffered from them.
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Flattery is like friendship in show, but not in fruit.
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Be of good hope in the face of death. Believe in this one truth for certain, that no evil can befall a good man either in life or death, and that his fate is not a matter of indifference to the gods.
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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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I am confident that there truly is such a thing as living again, that the living spring from the dead, and that the souls of the dead are in existence.
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Wind buffs up empty bladders opinion, fools.
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There are a great many of these accusers, and they have been accusing me now for a great many years, and what is more, they approached you at the most impressionable age, when some of you were children or adolescents and literally won their case by default, because there was no one to defend me.
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Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
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Since I am convinced that I wrong no one, I am not likely to wrong myself.
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When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.
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It is better to make a mistake with full force of your being than to carefully avoid mistakes with a trembling spirit.
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By means of beauty all beautiful things become beautiful.
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