"Wisdom adorneth riches and casteth a shadow over poverty."
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"Be of good cheer about death and know this as a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death"
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"There are a great many of these accusers, and they have been accusing me now for a great many years, and what is more, they approached you at the most impressionable age, when some of you were children or adolescents; and literally won their case by default, because there was no one to defend me."
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"Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat."
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"The real danger in life is not death, but living an evil life."
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"Four things belong to a judge: to hear courteously, to answer wisely, to consider soberly, and to decide impartially."
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"By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities."
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"Pride divides the men, humility joins them."
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"The life of which meaning one never ponders is not worth living"
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"The universe really is motion & nothing else."
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"They are not only idle who do nothing, but they are idle also who might be better employed."
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"The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods."
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"Just as you ought not to attempt to cure eyes without head or head without body, so you should not treat body without soul."
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"Why do you wonder that globetrotting does not help you, seeing that you always take yourself with you? The reason that set you wandering is ever at your heels."
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"Give me beauty in the inward soul; and may the outward and inward may be one."
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"The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift."
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"The greater the power that deigns to serve you, the more honor it demands of you."
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"See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all."
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"I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live."
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"It is a base thing for a man to wax old in careless self-neglect before he has lifted up his eyes and seen what manner of man he was made to be, in the full perfection of bodily strength and beauty. But these glories are withheld from him who is guilty of self-neglect, for they are not wont to blaze forth unbidden."
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