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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

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Intelligent individuals learn from every thing and every one; average people, from their experiences. The stupid already have all the answers.
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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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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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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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Agriculture Ignorant Man Problem Wheat
Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
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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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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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In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
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To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.
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Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
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The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.
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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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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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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

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