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Best for a person is to live his life being as cheerful and as little distressed as possible. This will occur if he does

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Ever since the beginning all have learned according to Homer…

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Like-mindedness makes friendship.

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Speech is a powerful master, which by means of the smallest and most invisible body accomplishes most divine deeds. For it

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It is not better for human beings to get all they want.

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The cheerful man who does good deeds … is strong and carefree; but he who takes no heed of what is right and does not do what

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Come, listen to my words, for learning increases wisdom.

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On most matters, most people make opinion an adviser to their soul. But opinion is fallible and uncertain and involves those

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Courageous is not only he who overcomes the enemy, but also he who overcomes pleasures.

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All things are an exchange for fire and fire for all things, as goods for gold and gold for goods.

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Do you not see that you are devouring each other in the carelessness of your thought?

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The same thing is both living and dead, and the waking and the sleeping, and young and old; for these things transformed

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What opposes, unites; the finest harmony is composed of things at variance, and everything comes to be in accordance

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Great delights come from beholding fine deeds.

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A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.

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Those who are lovers of wisdom should be inquirers into many things.

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In fleeing death, people seek it.

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The wisest of humans will appear as an ape in comparison with a god in respect to wisdom, beauty, and all other things.

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Everything that comes to be has some beginning, but what is eternal, being ungenerated did not have a beginning. But if it

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Evils accrue to people from good things, when one does not know how to direct the good things or possess them advantageously.

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For me, it is indifferent from where I am to begin: for that is where I will arrive back again.

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We in fact understand nothing exactly, but what changes according to the disposition both of the body and of the things

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We ought not to choose every pleasure, but that which tends to something good.

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…but beautiful places are often melancholy and very lonely.

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