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It seems that God took away the minds of poets that they might better express His.
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Virtue is the nursing-mother of all human pleasures, who, in rendering them just, renders them also pure and permanent; in moderating them, keeps them in breath and appetite; in interdicting those which she herself refuses, whets our desires to those that she allows; and, like a kind and liberal mother, abundantly allows all that nature requires, even to satiety, if not to lassitude.
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Neither I nor any other man should, on trial or in way, contrive to avoid death at any cost.
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One thing I know, that I know nothing. This is the source of my wisdom.
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In every one of us there are two ruling and directing principles, whose guidance we follow wherever they may lead; the one being an innate desire of pleasure; the other, an acquired judgment which aspires after excellence.
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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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Since I am convinced that I wrong no one, I am not likely to wrong myself.
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He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
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The soul, like the body, accepts by practice whatever habit one wishes it to contact.
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I love to go and see all the things I am happy without.
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I only know one thing, and that is I know nothing.
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How many things I can do without!
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It is best and easiest not to discredit others but to prepare oneself to be as good as possible.
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Neither in war nor yet at law ought any man to use every way of escaping death. For often in battle there is no doubt that if a man will throw away his arms, and fall on his knees before his pursuers, he may escape death; and in other dangers there are other ways of escaping death, if a man is willing to say and do anything. The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death.