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Commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still.

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Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
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Food Himself Man Philosophy Teaching Yourself
Hold firmly to your word.
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One Liner Word Yourself
The great sickness and the grievous evil consist in this: that all the things that man finds written in books, he presumes to think of as true-and all the more so if the books are old.
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Book Evil Greatness Grief Man Old Sick Thinking True Writing
What is lofty can be said in any language. What is mean should be said in none.
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Kindness Language Word
Nobody is ever impoverished through the giving of charity.
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Charity Money Poor
Hear the truth from whomever says it.
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One Liner Truth
Actions are divided as regards their object into four classes; they are either purposeless, unimportant, or vain, or good.
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Action Goodness Important Purpose
The second class of evils comprises such evils as people cause to each other, when, e.g. , some of them use their strength against others. These evils are more numerous than those of the first kind. They likewise originate in ourselves, though the sufferer himself cannot avert them.
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Evil People Strength Suffering
Every man whose character traits all lie in the mean is called a wise man.
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Character Lie Man Wisdom
The more necessary a thing is for living beings, the more easily it is found and the cheaper it is; the less necessary it is, the rarer and dearer it is.
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Easy Live Necessary
Do not imagine that these most difficult problems can be thoroughly understood by any one of us.
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Difficult Imagination Problem Understand
In so far as the soul is a force residing in the body; it has therefore been said that the properties of the soul depend of the condition of the body.
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Body Far Force Soul Spiritual
Your purpose, should always be to know, the whole that was intended to be known.
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Philosophy Purpose Yourself
Even the existence of this corporeal element, low as it in reality is, because it is the source of death and all evils, is likewise good for the permanence of the Universe and the continuation of the order of things, so that one thing departs and the other succeeds.
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Death Evil Existence Leaving Reality Success
Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen.
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Book Evidence Lie Writing
Medical practice is not knitting and weaving and the labor of the hands, but it must be inspired with soul and be filled with understanding and equipped with the gift of keen observation.
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Gift Hands Inspirational Practice Understand

Commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still.

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