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The nearest way to glory a shortcut, as it were is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be.
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Follow the argument wherever it leads.
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Be true to thine own self.
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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There is no greater magnificence than to defeat oneself. That is the magnificence.
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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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There's no good answer to a question you didn't hear.
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An honest man is always a child.
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If he who does not know kept silent, discord would cease.
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Malice drinketh up the greater part of its own poison.
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Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.
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Get not your friends by bare compliments but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.
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I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
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Exercise till the mind feels delight in reposing from the fatigue.
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Be as you wish to seem.
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If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.
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The true Wisdom is in recognizing our own ignorance.
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Wisdom belongs in wonder.
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A free soul ought not to pursue any study slavishly, for nothing that is learned under compulsion stays with the mind.
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The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.
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There is but one evil, ignorance.
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It is better to make a mistake with full force of your being than to carefully avoid mistakes with a trembling spirit.
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As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
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Virtue is the beauty of the soul.
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