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Serenity, regularity, absence of vanity,Sincerity, simplicity, veracity, equanimity, Fixity, non-irritability, adaptability, Humility, tenacity, integrity, nobility, magnanimity, charity, generosity, purity. Practise daily these eighteen "ities" You will soon attain immortality.
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The right way to begin is to pay attention to the young, and make them just as good as possible.
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How many things are there which I do not want.
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I am a fool, but I know I'm a fool and that makes me smarter than you.
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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.
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My belief is that to have no wants is divine.
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The heart of the person before you is a mirror. See there your own form.
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The greatest of all mysteries is the man himself.
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Creation is man's immortality and brings him nearest to the gods.
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Be of good cheer about death and know this as a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
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I swear it upon Zeus an outstanding runner cannot be the equal of an average wrestler.
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The fewer our wants the more we resemble the Gods.
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An envious man waxeth lean with the fatness of his neighbors. Envy is the daughter of pride, the author of murder and revenge, the beginner of secret sedition and the perpetual tormentor of virtue. Envy is the filthy slime of the soul; a venom, a poison, or quicksilver which consumeth the flesh and drieth up the marrow of the bones.
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Laws are not made for the good.
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He is the richest who is content with the least.
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The uninitiated are those who believe in nothing except what they can grasp in their hands, and who deny the existence of all that is invisible.
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The life of which meaning one never ponders is not worth living.
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There are two kinds of disease of the soul, vice and ignorance.
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The man who is truly wise knows that he knows very little.
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It is possible that a man could live twice as long if he didn't spend the first half of his life acquiring habits that shortens the other half.
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