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Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.

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The true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone.
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If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart.
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Contentment Depart Equality Misfortune
Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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Beginning One Liner Wisdom Wonder
Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
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Cheer Death Evil Goodness Happen Man Truth
In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
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By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
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I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
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Decide Deliver Enable Inspirational Instinct Poet Poetry Wisdom
To express oneself badly is not only faulty as far as the language goes, but does some harm to the soul.
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The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
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Be Yourself Greatness Honour Live Pretend
Wisdom begins in wonder.
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One Liner Wisdom Wonder
Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state.
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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Knowledge One Liner True Wisdom
Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is law and no amount of pretending will alter that reality.
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All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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