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Native ability without education is like a tree without fruit.
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The art of life lies in taking pleasures as they pass, and the keenest pleasures are not intellectual, nor are they always moral.
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The best thing is to possess pleasures without being their slave; not to be devoid of pleasures.
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If extravagance were a fault, it would not have a place in the festivals of the gods.
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The vice lies not in entering the bordello but in not coming out.
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It is not abstinence from pleasures that is best, but mastery over them without being worsted.
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Those that study particular sciences, and neglect philosophy, are like Penelope's wooers, that make love to the waiting women.
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You may have the power to slander, but I have the power not to listen to you.