"The man who is fortunate in his choice of son-in-law gains a son; the man unfortunate in his choice loses his daughter also."
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"Nature . . . has buried truth deep in the bottom of the sea."
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"By convention sweet is sweet, by convention bitter is bitter, by convention hot is hot, by convention cold is cold, by convention color is color. But in reality there are atoms and the void. That is, the objects of sense are supposed to be real and it is customary to regard them as such, but in truth they are not. Only the atoms and the void are real."
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"If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it."
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"Fortune provides a man's table with luxuries, virtue with only a frugal meal."
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"To speak but little becomes a woman; and she is best adorned who is in plain attire."
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"Envy creates the beginning of strife."
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"We know nothing in reality; for truth lies in an abyss."
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"It is hard to fight against anger: to master it is the mark of a rational man."
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"Man is a universe in little [Microcosm]."
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"Whatever a poet writes with enthusiasm and a divine inspiration is very fine. Earliest reference to the madness or divine inspiration of poets."
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"All things happen by virtue of necessity."
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"According to convention there is a sweet and a bitter, a hot and a cold, and according to convention, there is an order. In truth, there are atoms and a void."
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"The word is the shadow of the deed."
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"Soul and intellect are just the same things."
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"To a wise man, the whole earth is open; for the native land of a good soul is the whole earth."
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"Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and useless. These, now as of old, are not gifts of the gods: men stumble into them themselves because of their own blindness and folly."
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"We know nothing accurately in reality, but [only] as it changes according to the bodily condition, and the constitution of those things that flow upon [the body] and impinge upon it."
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"Nature and education are somewhat similar. The latter transforms man, and in so doing creates a second nature."
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"The laws would not prevent each man from living according to his inclination, unless individuals harmed each other; for envy creates the beginning of strife."
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