“A soul that makes virtue its companion is like an over-flowing well, for it is clean and pellucid, sweet and wholesome, open to all, rich, blameless and indestructible.”
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“If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.”
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“Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast. Is some dish brought to you? Then put forth your hand and help yourself in seemly fashion. Does it pass you by? Then do not hold it back. Has it not yet come to you? Then do not stretch out for it at a distance, but wait till it is at your hand. And thus doing with regard to children, and wife, and authority, and wealth, you will be a worthy guest at the table of the gods. And if you even pass over things that are offered to you, and refuse to take of them, then you will not only share the banquet of the gods, but also their dominion.”
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“Do not laugh much or often or unrestrainedly.”
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“Control thy passion lest they take vengence on thee.”
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“Remember that you are an actor in a drama, of such a part as it may please the master to assign you, for a long time or for a little as he may choose. And if he will you to take the part of a poor man, or a cripple, or a ruler, or a private citizen, then may you act that part with grace! For to act well the part that is allotted to us, that indeed is ours to do, but to choose it is another’s.”
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“If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked.”
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“Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.”
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“The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.”
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“To accuse others for one’s own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one’s education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one’s education is complete.”
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“We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.”
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“If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible.”
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“We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.”
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“If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.”
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“It is your own convictions which compels you; that is, choice compels choice.”
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“Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?”
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“If you wish to be a writer; write!”
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“He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God.”
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“A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.”
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“Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.”
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