"Philosophy is an act of living."
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"A remorseful change of mind renders even a noble action base, whereas the determination which is grounded on knowledge and reason cannot change even if its actions fail."
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"Pittacus said, "Every one of you hath his particular plague, and my wife is mine; and he is very happy who hath this only"."
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"Epaminondas is reported wittily to have said of a good man that died about the time of the battle of Leuctra, "How came he to have so much leisure as to die, when there was so much stirring?"
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"The process may seem strange and yet it is very true. I did not so much gain the knowledge of things by the words, as words by the experience I had of things."
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"There is never the body of a man, how strong and stout soever, if it be troubled and inflamed, but will take more harm and offense by wine being poured into it."
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"Nor let us part with justice, like a cheap and common thing, for a small and trifling price."
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"And Archimedes, as he was washing, thought of a manner of computing the proportion of gold in King Hiero's crown by seeing the water flowing over the bathing-stool. He leaped up as one possessed or inspired, crying, "I have found it! Eureka!"."
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"If Nature be not improved by instruction, it is blind; if instruction be not assisted by Nature, it is maimed; and if exercise fail of the assistance of both, it is imperfect."
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"The generous mind adds dignity to every act, and nothing misbecomes it."
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"Immoderate grief is selfish, harmful, brings no advantage to either the mourner or the mourned, and dishonors the dead."
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"For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human."
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"The crowns of kings do not prevent those who wear them from being tormented sometimes by violent headaches."
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"It is circumstance and proper measure that give an action its character, and make it either good or bad."
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"Nothing exists in the intellect that has not first gone through the senses."
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"When a man's struggle begins within oneself, the man is worth something."
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"Anaximander says that men were first produced in fishes, and when they were grown up and able to help themselves were thrown up, and so lived upon the land."
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"Solon being asked, namely, what city was best to live in. That city, he replied, in which those who are not wronged, no less than those who are wronged, exert themselves to punish the wrongdoers."
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"King Agis said, "The Lacedæmonians are not wont to ask how many, but where the enemy are.""
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"If you light upon an impertinent talker, that sticks to you like a bur, to the disappointment of your important occasions, deal freely with him, break off the discourse, and pursue your business."
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