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You never know a line is crooked unless you have a straight one to put next to it.

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I am wiser than this man, for neither of us appears to know anything great and good but he fancies he knows something, although he knows nothing whereas I, as I do not know anything, so I do not fancy I do. In this trifling particular, then, I appear to be wiser than he, because I do not fancy I know what I do not know.
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The man who is truly wise knows that he knows very little.
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The noblest worship is to make yourself as good and as just as you can.
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YOU ARE NOT ONLY GOOD TO YOURSELF, BUT THE CAUSE OF GOODNESS IN OTHERS
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Get not your friends by bare compliments but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.
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There is no difference between knowledge and temperance for he who knows what is good and embraces it, who knows what is bad and avoids it, is learned and temperate.
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Serenity, regularity, absence of vanity,Sincerity, simplicity, veracity, equanimity, Fixity, non-irritability, adaptability, Humility, tenacity, integrity, nobility, magnanimity, charity, generosity, purity. Practise daily these eighteen ities You will soon attain immortality.
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Be of good cheer about death and know this as a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death
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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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The greater the power that deigns to serve you, the more honor it demands of you.
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You are wrong, sir, if you think that a man who is any good at all should take into account the risk of life or death he should look to this only in his actions, whether what he does is right or wrong, whether he is acting like a good or a bad man.
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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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For who is there but you? - who not only claim to be a good man and a gentleman, for many are this, and yet have not the power of making others good. Whereas you are not only good yourself, but also the cause of goodness in others.
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I know that I know nothing.
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My divine sign indicates the future to me.
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She soars on her own wings.
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wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state
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