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Abstruse questions must have ...

Abstruse questions must have abstruse answers.

Plutarch 385 quotes

Nothing can produce so great ...

Nothing can produce so great a serenity of life as a mind free from guilt and kept untainted, not only from actions, but purposes that are wicked. By this means the soul will be not only unpolluted but also undisturbed. The fountain will run clear and unsullied.

Plutarch 385 quotes

It is a thing of no great dif...

It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in it's place is a work extremely troublesome.

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Our senses through ignorance ...

Our senses through ignorance of Reality, falsely tell us that what appears to be, is. FEAR = False Evidence Appearing Real

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There are two sentences inscr...

There are two sentences inscribed upon the Ancient oracle... "Know thyself" and "Nothing too much"; and upon these all other precepts depend.

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When another is asked a quest...

When another is asked a question, take special care not to interrupt to answer it yourself.

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Poverty is dishonorable, not ...

Poverty is dishonorable, not in itself, but when it is a proof of laziness, intemperance, luxury, and carelessness; whereas in a person that is temperate, industrious, just and valiant, and who uses all his virtues for the public good, it shows a great and lofty mind.

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He who cheats with an oath ac...

He who cheats with an oath acknowledges that he is afraid of his enemy, but that he thinks little of God.

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Knowledge of divine things fo...

Knowledge of divine things for the most part, as Heraclitus says, is lost to us by incredulity.

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Oh, what a world full of pain...

Oh, what a world full of pain we create, for a little taste upon the tongue.

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When Demaratus was asked whet...

When Demaratus was asked whether he held his tongue because he was a fool or for want of words, he replied, "A fool cannot hold his tongue.

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The abuse of buying and selli...

The abuse of buying and selling votes crept in and
money began to play an important part in determining
elections. Later on, this process of corruption spread to
the law courts. And then to the army, and finally the
Republic was subjected to the rule of emperors

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Anger turns the mind out of d...

Anger turns the mind out of doors and bolts the entrance.

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Choose what is best, and habi...

Choose what is best, and habit will make it pleasant and easy.

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Learn to be pleased with ever...

Learn to be pleased with everything...because it could always be worse, but isn't!

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The state of life is most hap...

The state of life is most happy where superfluities are not required and necessities are not wanting.

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I would rather excel in the kn...

I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions.

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Painting is silent poetry, and...

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.

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A few vices are sufficient to ...

A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.

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Philosophy is the art of livin...

Philosophy is the art of living.

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