Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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Now the hour to part has come. I go to die, you go to live. Which of us goes to the better lot is known to no one, except the god.
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There is no solution; seek it lovingly.
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A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
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I know you won’t believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.
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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?
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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.
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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune, nor too sorrowful in misfortune.
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No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.
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