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A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.
[ Truth ]
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A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
[ Life and Living ]
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All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
[ Abstinence ]
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Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.
[ Difficulties ]
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First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
[ Speakers and Speaking ]
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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
[ Affirmation ]
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For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death and hardship.
[ Fear ]
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Freedom is the right to live as we wish.
[ Freedom ]
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God hath entrusted me with myself.
[ God ]
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He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk.
[ Alcohol and Alcoholism ]
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He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God.
[ Wisdom ]
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If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
[ Critics and Criticism ]
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If you wish to be a writer; write!
[ Writers and Writing ]
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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
[ Freedom ]
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It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.
[ Knowledge ]
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It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
[ Pleasure ]
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It is your own convictions which compels you; that is, choice compels choice.
[ Choice ]
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It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
[ Attitude ]
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Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.
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Liars are the cause of all the sins and crimes in the world.
[ Lies and Lying ]
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Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
[ Power ]
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Men are disturbed not by things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen.
[ Opinions ]
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Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.
[ Belief ]
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Nature gave us one tongue and two ears so we could hear twice as much as we speak.
[ Listening ]
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Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.
[ Hope ]
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No great thing is created suddenly.
[ Greatness ]
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No man is free who is not a master of himself.
[ Freedom ]
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One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.
[ Perfection ]
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Only the educated are free.
[ Education ]
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Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things, and then proceed to greater.
[ Discipline ]
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The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.
[ Patience ]
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What will the world be quite overturned when you die?
[ Egotism ]
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Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?
[ Children ]
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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.
[ Life and Living ]
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