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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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Let us follow the truth whither so ever it leads.
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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 greatest of all mysteries is the man himself.
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The heart of the person before you is a mirror. See there your own form.
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How many things are there which I do not want.
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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 am a fool, but I know I'm a fool and that makes me smarter than you.
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I swear it upon Zeus an outstanding runner cannot be the equal of an average wrestler.
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He is the richest who is content with the least.
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The fewer our wants the more we resemble the Gods.
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Laws are not made for the good.
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The life of which meaning one never ponders is not worth living.
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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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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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Only the knowledge that comes from inside is the real Knowledge.
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The man who is truly wise knows that he knows very little.
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There are two kinds of disease of the soul, vice and ignorance.
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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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The real danger in life is not death, but living an evil life.
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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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False language, evil in itself, infects the soul with evil.
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