"When you admonish a wrongdoer, do so gently, that it may not lead to hostility."
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"For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories... The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile."
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"The cause of all the blunders committed by man arises from this excessive self-love. For the lover is blinded by the object loved; so that he passes a wrong judgment on what is just, good and beautiful, thinking that he ought always to honor what belongs to himself in preference to truth. For he who intends to be a great man ought to love neither himself nor his own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by himself, or by another."
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"Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty."
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"Love consists in feeling the Sacred One beating inside the loved one."
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"To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it."
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"You can remember, a single deluge only, but there were many previous ones."
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"When a man drinks wine at dinner, he begins to be better pleased with himself."
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"That which is apprehended by intelligence and reason is always in the same state; but that which is conceived by opinion with the help of sensation and without reason, is always in a process of becoming and perishing and never really is."
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"Art has no end but its own perfection."
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"... the good are not willing to rule either for the sake of money or of honor."
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"Wisdom is a blaze, kindled by a leaping spark."
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"Most people affirm pleasure to be the good, but the finer sort of wits say it is knowledge."
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"Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly."
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"To be curious about that which is not one's concern while still in ignorance of oneself is ridiculous."
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"The most important stage of any enterprise is the beginning."
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"Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the gods; desired by those who have no part in him, and precious to those who have the better part in him."
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"Give me a different set of mothers and I will give you a different world"
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"Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child."
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"For every man who has learned to fight in arms will desire to learn the proper arrangement of an army, which is the sequel of the lesson."
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