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When Thales was asked what was difficult, he said, 'To know one's self.' And what was easy, 'To advise another.'
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We have two ears and only one tongue in order that we may hear more and speak less.
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The question was put to him, what hope is and his answer was, The dream of a waking man.
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Solon used to say that speech was the image of actions... that laws were like cobwebs, --for that if any trifling or powerless thing fell into them, they held it fast while if it were something weightier, it broke through them and was off.
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He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge and one only evil, namely, ignorance.
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He used to say that it was better to have one friend of great value than many friends who were good for nothing.
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Aristotle was once asked what those who tell lies gain by it. Said he, That when they speak truth they are not believed.
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'Bury me on my face,' said Diogenes and when he was asked why, he replied, 'Because in a little while everything will be turned upside down.'
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