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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.

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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
Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.
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Beautiful Man Peace Soul
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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Improvement Inspirational Labor Men Time Writing Yourself
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
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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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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Knowledge One Liner True Wisdom
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
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
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
There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
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Equality Man Superior Woman Women Empowerment
An unconsidered life is not one worth living.
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Consider Inspirational Life Live One Liner Worth
Understanding a question is half an answer.
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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.

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