"Full of men, vacant of friends."
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"When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless."
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"No evil is without its compensation."
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"One who's our friend is fond of us; one who's fond of us isn't necessarily our friend."
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"If true, the Pythagorean principles as to abstain from flesh, foster innocence; if ill-founded they at least teach us frugality, and what loss have you in losing your cruelty? It merely deprives you of the food of lions and vultures...let us ask what is best - not what is customary. Let us love temperance - let us be just - let us refrain from bloodshed."
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"Beauty is such a fleeting blossom, how can wisdom rely upon its momentary delight?"
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"The condition of all who are preoccupied is wretched, but most wretched is the condition of those who labor at preoccupations that are not even their own, who regulate their sleep by that of another, their walk by the pace of another, who are under orders in case of the freest things in the world-loving and hating. If these wish to know how short their life is, let them reflect how small a part of it is their own."
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"People pay the doctor for his trouble; for his kindness they still remain in his debt."
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"Time discovers truth."
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"What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing."
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"No one can have all he desires."
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"The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires."
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"Whatever has overstepped its due bounds is always in a state of instability."
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"The evil which assails us is not in the localities we inhabit but in ourselves."
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"Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones."
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"The entire world would perish, if pity were not to limit anger."
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"The physician cannot prescribe by letter, he must feel the pulse."
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"To expel hunger and thirst there is no necessity of sitting in a palace and submitting to the supercilious brow and contumelious favour of the rich and great there is no necessity of sailing upon the deep or of following the camp What nature wants is every where to be found and attainable without much difficulty whereas require the sweat of the brow for these we are obliged to dress anew j compelled to grow old in the field and driven to foreign mores A sufficiency is always at hand"
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"A king is he who has laid fear aside and the base longings of an evil heart; whom ambition unrestrained and the fickle favor of the reckless mob move not."
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"Man's ideal state is realized when he has fulfilled the purpose for which he is born. And what is it that reason demands of him? Something very easy-that he live in accordance with his own nature."
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