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- Me
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O thou Sun, send me as far over the earth as is my pleasure and thine, and may I make the acquaintance of good men, but never hear anything of bad ones, nor they of me.
- Money
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Plato said that virtue has no master. If a person does not honor this principle and rejoice in it, but is purchasable for money, he creates many masters for himself.
- Learned
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I have not yet learned to keep still.
- Healthy
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The gods, as they are beneficent, if they find anyone who is healthy and whole and unscarred by vice, will send him away, surely, after crowning him, not with golden crowns, but with all sorts of blessings.
- Business
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I asked questions when I was a stripling, and it is not my business to ask questions now, but to teach people what I have discovered.
- He
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It is the duty of the law-giver to deliver to the many the instructions of whose truth he has persuaded himself.
- Secrets
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You need not wonder at my knowing all human languages; for, to tell you the truth, I also understand all the secrets of human silence.
- Practice
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If you have problems of conduct that are difficult and hard to settle, I will furnish you with solutions, for I not only know matters of practice and duty, but I even know them beforehand.
- Me
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O ye gods, grant unto me to have little and to want nothing.
- Fortify
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A man must fortify himself and understand that a wise man who yields to laziness or anger or passion or love of drink, or who commits any other action prompted by impulse and inopportune, will probably find his fault condoned; but if he stoops to greed, he will not be pardoned, but render himself odious as a combination of all vices at once.
- Friendship
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I feel friendship towards philosophers, but towards sophists, teachers of literature, or any other such kind of godforsaken people, I neither feel friendship now, nor may I ever do so in the future.
- May
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Virtue comes by nature, learning, and practice, and thanks to virtue, all of the aforesaid may deserve approval.
- Argument
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Every argument is incapable of helping unless it is singular and addressed to a single person. Therefore, one who discourses in any other way presumably does so from love of reputation.
- Godlike
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Pythagoras said that medicine is the most godlike of arts. But if the most godlike, it should tend to the soul as well as the body, or else a living thing must be unhealthy, being diseased in its higher part.
- Me
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The gods do not need sacrifices, so what might one do to please them? Acquire wisdom, it seems to me, and do all the good in one's power to those humans who deserve it.
- Law
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Multicolored stones and paintings, walkways, and theaters are useless in a city unless it also contains wisdom and law. Such things are the subject of wisdom and law, not equivalent to them.
- Judgment
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In my judgment, excellence and wealth are direct opposites, since when the one shrinks, the other grows, and when one grows, the other shrinks.
- He
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My ideal is for each to do what he knows and what he can.
- Man
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It is a true man's part not to err, but it is also noble of a man to perceive his error.
- Know
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If any man has left us for fear of Nero, I shall not account him a coward; but I shall hail as a philosopher any man who has been superior to this fear, and I shall teach him all I know.
- Beast
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In my travels, which have been wider than ever man yet accomplished, I have seen many, many wild beasts of Arabia and India; but this beast, that is commonly called a Tyrant, I know not how many heads it has, nor if it be crooked of claw, and armed with horrible fangs.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I delight to lodge in such temples as are not regularly kept closed. None of the gods reject me; they make me partner of their roof.
- How
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Nero may have understood how to tune his cithern, but he disgraced his imperial office both by slackening and by tightening the strings.
- Democracy
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Just as an individual of pre-eminent worth transforms democracy into a monarchy of the best man, even so the rule of one man, if in all things it has an eye to the common welfare, is democracy.
- Black
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Do not consider that to be wealth which is hoarded away, for how is it better than sand gathered from the nearest heap? Nor that which comes in from men who groan at their taxes: for the gold that is wrung from tears is of base alloy and black.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020