"Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach."
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"Men are marked from the moment of birth to rule or be ruled."
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"Even that some people try deceived me many times ... I will not fail to believe that somewhere, someone deserves my trust."
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"There is nothing unequal as the equal treatment of unequals."
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"Friends are much better tried in bad fortune than in good."
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"It belongs to small-mindedness to be unable to bear either honor or dishonor, either good fortune or bad, but to be filled with conceit when honored and puffed up by trifling good fortune, and to be unable to bear even the smallest dishonor and to deem any chance failure a great misfortune, and to be distressed and annonyed at everything. Moreover the small-minded man is the sort of person to call all slights an insult and dishonor, even those that are due to ignorance or forgetfulness. Small-mindedness is accompanied by pettiness, querulousness, pessimism and self-abasement."
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"It is the characteristic of the magnanimous man to ask no favor but to be ready to do kindness to others."
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"We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace."
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"Adventure is worthwhile."
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"Where your talents and the needs of the world cross, therein lies your vocation. These two, your talents and the needs of the world, are the great wake up calls to your true vocation in life... to ignore this, is in some sense, is to lose your soul."
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"Money was intended to be used in exchange, but not to increase at interest. And this term interest, which means the birth of money from money, is applied to the breeding of money because the offspring resembles the parent. Wherefore of all modes of getting wealth this is the most unnatural."
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"Our youth should also be educated with music and physical education."
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"Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them."
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"Remember that time slurs over everything, let all deeds fade, blurs all writings and kills all memories. Exempt are only those which dig into the hearts of men by love."
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"No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world."
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"The weak are always anxious for justice and equality. The strong pay no heed to either."
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"Life is only meaningful when we are striving for a goal ."
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"The hardest victory is the victory over self."
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"Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish."
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"Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it."
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