"The end of life is to be like unto God; and the soul following God, will be like unto Him; He being the beginning, middle, and end of all things."
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"Let he who would move the world, first complete an environmental impact assessment and a 90-day public comment period."
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"Whoever would have his body supple, easy and healthful should learn to dance."
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"A free soul ought not to pursue any study slavishly, for nothing that is learned under compulsion stays with the mind."
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"Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued." "It is not living that matters, but living rightly. The unexamined life is not worth living."
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"It is not living that matters, but living rightly."
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"You don't know what you don't know."
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"I have not sought during my life to amass wealth and to adorn my body, but I have sought to adorn my soul with the jewels of wisdom, patience, and above all with a love of liberty."
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"Nobody knows what death is, nor whether to man it is perchance the greatest of blessings, yet people fear it as if they surely knew it to be the worse of evils."
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"I love to go and see all the things I am happy without."
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"Life without enquiry is not worth living for a man."
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"Talk in order that I may see you."
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"Antiphon, as another man gets pleasure from a good horse, or a dog, or a bird, I get even more pleasure from good friends. And if I have something good, I teach it to them, and I introduce them to others who will be useful to them with respect to virtue. And together with my friends I go through the treasures of wise men of old which they left behind written in books, and we peruse them. If we see something good, we pick it out and hold it to be a great profit, if we are able to prove useful to one another."
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"Regard your good name as the richest jewel yoou can possibly be possessed of."
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"A painter will paint a cobbler, carpenter, or any other artist, though he knows nothing of their arts; and, if he is a good artist, he may deceive children or simple persons, when he shows them his picture of a carpenter from a distance, and they will fancy that they are looking at a real carpenter."
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"One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice."
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"Virtue is the nursing-mother of all human pleasures, who, in rendering them just, renders them also pure and permanent; in moderating them, keeps them in breath and appetite; in interdicting those which she herself refuses, whets our desires to those that she allows; and, like a kind and liberal mother, abundantly allows all that nature requires, even to satiety, if not to lassitude."
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"In order that the mind should see light instead of darkness, so the entire soul must be turned away from this changing world, until its eye can learn to contemplate reality and that supreme splendor which we have called the good. Hence there may well be an art whose aim would be to effect this very thing."
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"The noblest worship is to make yourself as good and as just as you can."
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"I have lived long enough to learn how much there is I can really do without.... He is nearest to God who needs the fewest things."
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