"These differences, they say, are three: shape, arrangement, and position; because they hold that what is differs only in contour, inter-contact, inclination."
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"No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge."
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"Word is a shadow of a deed."
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"Sweet exists by convention, bitter by convention, color by convention; but in reality atoms and the void alone exist"
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"The whole Earth is at the hand of the wise man, since the fatherland of an elevated soul is the Universe."
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"If you would know contentment, let your deeds be few."
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"Virtue isn't not wronging others but not wishing to wrong others."
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"Poor mind, from the senses you take your arguments, and then want to defeat them? Your victory is your defeat."
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"In a shared fish, there are no bones."
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"Disease of the home and of the life comes about in the same way as that of the body."
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"To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland."
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