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Coffee and love taste best when hot.

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The happiness and unhappiness of the rational, social animal depends not on what he feels but on what he does; just as his virtue and vice consist not in feeling but in doing.

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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

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A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.

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The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny.

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It is a difficult matter to argue with the belly since it has no ears.

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Do not test out your mind on the grounds that you are examining what seductive and impure thoughts look like, imagining that, as you do this, you will not be overcome by them. Even the wise have in this way been thrown into confusion and become infatuated.

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When men are inhuman, take care not to feel towards them as they do towards other humans.

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Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

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Suffer no anxiety, for he who is a sufferer of anxiety becomes regardless of enjoyment of the world and the spirit, and contraction happens to his body and soul.

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We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

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The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God.

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Where a man is against his will, there his is imprisoned. Desire things to happen exactly as they happen and you will always be free.

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I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

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Whoever then would be free, let him wish for nothing, let him decline nothing, which depends on others; else he must necessarily be a slave.

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Everything in excess Is opposed by nature.

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Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin.

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We are mad, not only individually but nationally. We check
manslaughter and isolated murders, but what of war and the much-vaunted
crime of slaughtering whole peoples?

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A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

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Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

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It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man.

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Carpe diem. (Seize The Day)

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When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty and there is nothing to fear from them then he is always stirring up some wary or other in order that the people may require a leader.

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Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.

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If a man wish to put his son out of his house, and declare before the judge: “I want to put my son out,” then the judge shall examine into his reasons. If the son be guilty of no great fault, for which he can be rightfully put out, the father shall not put him out.

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Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.

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The secret to happiness isn’t gaining more but learning to enjoy less.

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The best fighter is never angry.

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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

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Happiness does not consist in amusement. In fact, it would be strange if our end were amusement, and if we were to labor and suffer hardships all our life long merely to amuse ourselves. The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement.

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Fear is the foundation of safety.

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If a physician make a large incision with the operating knife, and kill him, or open a tumor with the operating knife, and cut out the eye, his hands shall be cut off.

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Demand not that things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well.

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That which is good for all and any one,
For whomsoever- that is good for me

What I hold good for self, I should for all.
Only Law Universal is true law.

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Evil is the vulgar lover who loves the body rather than the soul, inasmuch as he is not even stable, because he loves a thing which is in itself unstable, and therefore when the bloom of youth which he was desiring is over, he takes wing and flies away, in spite of all his words and promises; whereas the love of the noble disposition is life-long, for it becomes one with the everlasting.

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In my experience, men who respond to good fortune with modesty and kindness are harder to find than those who face adversity with courage. For in the very nature of things, success tends to create pride and blindness in the hearts of men, while suffering teaches them to be patient and strong.

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To do nothing is also a good remedy.

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After I’m dead I’d rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.

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Live out your life in truth and justice, tolerant of those who are neither true nor just.

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If you wish to be out front, then act as if you were behind.

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In every tyrant’s heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.

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To the degree that I cease to persue my deepest passions, I will gradually be controlled by my deepest fears.

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Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.