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What is due to the state pay as quickly as you can, and you will never be asked for that which is not due.
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A fool having enjoyed good fortune like intoxication to a great amount becomes more foolish.
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If you seek truth, you will not seek by every means to gain a victory; and if you have found truth, you will have the gain of not being defeated.
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As it is pleasant to see the sea from the land, so it is pleasant for him who has escaped from troubles to think of them.
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It is not poverty which produces sorrow, but desire.
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Check your passions, that you may not be punished by them.
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As a goose is not frightened by cackling nor a sheep by bleating, so let not the clamour of a senseless multitude alarm you.
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It is a shame for those who sweeten drink with the gifts of the bees, by badness to embitter reason which is the gift of the gods.
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In banquets remember that you entertain two guests, body and soul: and whatever you shall have given to the body you soon eject: but what you shall have given to the soul, you keep always.
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The life which is implicated with fortune (depends on fortune) is like a winter torrent: for it is turbulent, and full of mud, and difficult to cross, and tyrannical, and noisy, and of short duration.
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Do not so much be ashamed of that disgrace which proceeds from men's opinion as fly from that which comes from the truth.
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The soul that companies with Virtue is like an ever-flowing source. It is a pure, clear, and wholesome draught; sweet, rich, and generous of its store; that injures not, neither destroys.
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Even as the Sun doth not wait for prayers and incantations to rise, but shines forth and is welcomed by all: so thou also wait not for clapping of hands and shouts and praise to do thy duty; nay, do good of thine own accord, and thou wilt be loved like the Sun.
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Crows pick out the eyes of the dead, when the dead have no longer need of them; but flatterers mar the soul of the living, and her eyes they blind.
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Of pleasures, those which occur most rarely give the most delight.
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Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.
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As nothing is straighter than that which is straight, so nothing is juster than that which is just.
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Pleasure, like a kind of bait, is thrown before everything which is really bad, and easily allures greedy souls to the hook of perdition.
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It is better by assenting to truth to conquer opinion, than by assenting to opinion to be conquered by truth.
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We should enjoy good fortune while we have it, like the fruits of autumn.
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