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Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.
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The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.
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There is nothing permanent except change. [Therefore enjoy what good you have while you have it and endure and outlast what bad you can't cure immediately]
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Everything flows, nothing stays still.
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To God all things are beautiful and good and just.
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It is better to conceal ignorance than to expose it.
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Everything is in flux.
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If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not recognize it when it arrives.
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The content of your # character is your # choice.
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The universal cosmic process was not created by any god or man.
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Wisdom consists in speaking and acting the truth.
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Character is our destiny.
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If one does not expect the unexpected, one will not find it out, since it is not to be searched out, and difficut to compass.
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Whoever cannot seek the unforeseen sees nothing for the known way is an impasse.
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Even sleepers are workers and collaborators on what goes on in the universe.
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Eyes are more accurate witnesses than ears.
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Character is fate. (Destiny).
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The Cosmos was not made by gods but always was and is eternal fire.
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From out of all the many particulars comes oneness, and out of oneness come all the many particulars.
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The fairest harmony springs from discord.
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The nature of things is in the habit of concealing itself.
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Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.
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Presumption must be quenched even more than a fire.
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It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine.