"The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be."
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"The only thing I know is that I know nothing"
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"Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune."
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"Get not your friends by bare compliments but by giving them sensible tokens of your love."
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"Better to do a little well, then a great deal badly."
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"Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth; and the reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service."
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"If measure and symmetry are absent from any composition in any degree, ruin awaits both the ingredients and the composition... Measure and symmetry are beauty and virtue the world over."
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"To move the world we must move ourselves."
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"Slanderers do not hurt me because they do not hit me."
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"The young people of today think of nothing but themselves. They have no reverence for parents or old age. They are impatient of all restraint. They talk as if they alone knew everything and what passes for wisdom with us is foolishness with them. As for girls, they are forward, immodest and unwomanly in speech, behaviour and dress."
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"The envious person grows lean with the fatness of their neighbor."
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"No man has a right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training"
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"He is the richest who is content with the least."
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"If what you want to tell me is neither True nor Good nor even Useful, why tell it to me at all"
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"I am a citizen, not of Athens, or Greece, but of the world."
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"In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent."
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"Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual."
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"Do not be angry with me if I tell you the truth"
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"The heart of the person before you is a mirror. See there your own form."
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"Nothing is so well learned as that which is discovered."
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