If there is anything beautiful other than absolute beauty, that can only be beautiful as far as it partakes of absolute beauty—and this I should say of everything. ...by beauty all things become beautiful. ...by greatness only great things become great and greater and greater, and by smallness the less becomes less. The Trials Of Socrates
Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise. Don Quixote
As nothing is straighter than that which is straight, so nothing is juster than that which is just. Fragment
Everywhere and at all times it is in thy power piously to acquiesce in thy present condition, and to behave justly to those who are about thee, and to exert thy skill upon thy present thoughts, that nothing shall steal into them without being well examined. Book VII
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