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

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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
Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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Beginning One Liner Wisdom Wonder
God would seem to indicate to us and not allow us to doubt that these beautiful poems are not human, or the work of man, but divine and the work of God; and that the poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.
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Beautiful Divine Doubt God Human Indicate Man Poem Poet Work
Mankind is made of two kinds of people: wise people who know they’re fools, and fools who think they are wise.
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Fools Kindness People Philosophy Wise
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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Amateur Beautiful Body Capable Exercise Fitness Grow Inspirational Man Old Physical Strength Traning
To be is to do.
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Gym Husstle Inspirational One Liner Possitive
It is not difficult to avoid death, gentlemen of the jury; it is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.
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Avoid Death Difficult Ignorance Run Wicked
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
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Improvement Labor Men Writing Yourself
Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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Blessing Death Greatness Human One Liner
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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Arrive Death Departure Die God Life Separate
The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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Be Yourself Greatness Honor Myself Pretend World
The unexamined life is not worth living.
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Inspirational Life One Liner Truth Wisdom Worth
The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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Beginning One Liner Positive Wisdom
The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.
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Authority Bad Children Contempt Disrespect Exercise Love Luxury Manner Place
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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Deep Healing Love Need One Liner
In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
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Beast Dreamss Goodness Law Men Nature Sleep Wild
Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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Knowledge Wealth
The hottest love has the coldest end.
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Break Up Cold Deep Ending Hot Love One Liner
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
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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Die Except God Hour
Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
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Constant Fall Friendship
One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.
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Account Evil Himself Injured Injustice Journey Man Return Suffering
If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.
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Goodness Inspirational Saddle Struggle Tame
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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Bad Funny Goodness Happiness Marriage Philosophy Wife
Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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Deep Eat Funny Live One Liner
Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
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Achievement Desire Dreamss Heart Life Tragedy

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