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| Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but from many. |
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| One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. |
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| Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance. |
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| People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die. |
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| Perfect wisdom has four parts, viz., wisdom, the principle of doing things aright; justice, the principle of doing things equally in public and private; fortitude, the principle of not flying danger, but meeting it; and temperance, the principle of subduing desires and living moderately. |
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| Perfect wisdom hath four parts: wisdom, the principle of doing things right; justice the principle of doing things equally in public and private; fortitude, the principle of not fleeing danger, but meeting it; and temperance, the principle of subdui |
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| Philosophy is an elegant thing, if anyone modestly meddles with it; but if they are conversant with it more than is becoming, it corrupts them. |
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| Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil. |
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| Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history. |
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| Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand |
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| Science is nothing but perception. |
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| Serious things cannot be understood without laughable things, or opposites at all without opposites |
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| Someday, in the distant future, our grandchildren's grandchildren will develop a new equivalent of our classrooms. They will spend many hours in front of boxes with fires glowing within. May they have the wisdom to know the difference between light and knowledge. |
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