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He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burd...more

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Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.

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Ideas are the source of all things

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The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. ...more

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The spiritual eyesight improves as the physical eyesight declines.

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Wise men talk because they have something to say; Fools, because they have to say something.

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Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

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I thought to myself: I am wiser than this man; neither of us probably knows anything that is really good, but he thinks he has knowledge, when he has ...more

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the matter is as it is in all other cases: if it is naturally in you to be a good orator, a notable orator you will be when you have acquired knowledg...more

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O dear Pan and all the other gods of this place, grant that I may be beautiful inside. Let all my external possessions be in friendly harmony with wha...more

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There is nothing which for my part I like better, Cephalus, than conversing with aged men; for I regard them as travellers who have gone a journey whi...more

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For this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy.