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Get married, in any case. If you happen to get a good mate, you will be happy if a bad one, you will become philosophical, which is a fine thing in itself.
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Listen not to a tale-bearer or slanderer, for he tells thee nothing out of good-will but as he discovereth of the secrets of others, so he will of thine in turn.
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Who knows if to live is to be dead, and to be dead, to live? And we really, it may be, are dead in fact I once heard sages say that we are now dead, and the body is our tomb.
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If all the misfortunes of mankind were cast into a public stack in order to be equally distributed among the whole species, those who now think themselves the most unhappy would prefer the share they are already possessed of before that which would fall to them by such a division.
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To use words and phrases in an easygoing manner without scrutinizing them too curiously is not in general a mark of ill-breeding. On the contrary, there is something low-bred in being too precise. But sometimes there is no help for it
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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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This sense of wonder is the mark of the philosopher. Philosophy indeed has no other origin.
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The man who is truly wise knows that he knows very little.
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Nobody knows what death is, nor whether to man it is perchance the greatest of blessings, yet people fear it as if they surely knew it to be the worse of evils.
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The reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.
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If I can assign names as well as pictures to objects, the right assignment of them we may call truth, and the wrong assignment of them falsehood.
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As for me, all I know is I know nothing.
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Laws are not made for the good.
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Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm & constant.
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No man has a right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training
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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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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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God does not deal directly with man: it is by means of spirits that all the intercourse and communication of gods with men, both in waking life and in sleep, is carried on.
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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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Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
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