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Death offers mankind a full view of truth.
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I soon realized that poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who also say many fine things without any understanding of what they say.
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Those who want the fewest things are nearest to the gods.
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The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness for that runs faster than death.
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The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.
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Whoever would have his body supple, easy and healthful should learn to dance.
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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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Pride divides the men, humility joins them.
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He is the richest who is content with the least.
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I am very conscious that I am not wise at all.
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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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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 real artist, who knew what he was imitating, would be interested in realities and not in imitations and would desire to leave as memorials of himself works many and fair and, instead of being the author of encomiums, he would prefer to be the theme of them.
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What a lot of things there are a man can do without.
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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.
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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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I know you won't believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.
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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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