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"It is one thing to remember, another to know. To remember is to safeguard something entrusted to the memory. But to know is to make each thing one's own, not depend on the text and always to look back to the teacher. "Zeno said this, Cleanthes said this." Let there be space between you and the book."
"We are mad, not only individually, but nationally. We check manslaughter and isolated murders; but what of war and the much-vaunted crime of slaughtering whole peoples?"
"These individulas have riches just as we say that we 'have a fever,' when really the fever has us."
"There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality."
"All art is but imitation of nature."
"Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing."
"The great thing is to know when to speak and when to keep quiet."
"Men can be divided into 2 groups: one that goes ahead and achieves something, and one that comes after and criticizes."
"Associate with people who are likely to improve you."
"What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it."
"The worse a person is the less he feels it."
"No one loves his country for its size or eminence, but because it's his own."
"Look at the stars lighting up the sky: no one of them stays in the same place."
"It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable."
"The state of that man's mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable."
"Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power."
"Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding."
"Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures."
"Do you desire not to be angry? Be not inquisitive. He who inquires what is said of him only works out his own misery."
"All things are cause for either laughter or weeping."