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No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.

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Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.

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Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excellent in them.

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Learn to be pleased with everything with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others with poverty, for not having much to care for, and with obscurity, for being unenvied.

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Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.

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It is certainly desirable to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.

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In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.

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I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions.

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He who reflects on another man's want of breeding, shows he wants it as much himself

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God is the brave man's hope, and not the coward's excuse

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For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.

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An old doting fool, with one foot already in the grave.

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(Solon) being asked, namely, what city was best to live in, That city, he replied, in which those who are not wronged, no less than those who are wronged, exert themselves to punish the wrongdoers

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Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.

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Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.

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We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away.

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Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; and with obscurity, for being unenvied.

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