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You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

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To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.

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In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.

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Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

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The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

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No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

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No one loves the man whom he fears.

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Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.

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Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

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For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.

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The end of labor is to gain leisure.

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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

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Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.

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Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.

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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

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Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.

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The secret to humor is surprise.

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Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there cannot be someone to count there cannot be anything that can be counted, so that evidently there cannot be number; for number is either what has been, or what can be, counted.

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But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.

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There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

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