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The man who does evil to another does evil to himself, and the evil counsel is most evil for him who counsels it.

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For a man wins nothing better than a good wife, and then again nothing deadlier than a bad one.

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Badness you can get easily, in quantity; the road is smooth, and it lies close by, But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it.

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Giving is good, but taking is bad and brings death.

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We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

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Preserve the mean; the opportune moment is best in all things.

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So the people will pay the penalty for their kings' presumption, who, by devising evil, turn justice from her path with tortuous speech.

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It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy.

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Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.

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Whoever happens to give birth to mischievous children lives always with unending grief in his spirit and heart.

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Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of craftsman; and the poor have a grudge against the poor, and the poet against the poet.

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As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.

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Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them.

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There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge - that is everywhere.

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To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness.

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What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.

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There's no reality except the one contained within us. That's why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside them for reality and never allow the world within them to assert itself.

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The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.

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Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

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The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

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