Quotes
Quotes to inspire and reflect
Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.
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It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.
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To him who is in fear everything rustles.
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Foolishness is indeed the sister of wickedness.
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A man growing old becomes a child again.
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The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
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No speech can stain what is noble by nature.
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There is no success without hardship.
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Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.
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One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love.
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Always desire to learn something useful.
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Who seeks shall find.
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Old age and the passage of time teach all things.
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Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
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Trust dies but mistrust blossoms.
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Children are the anchors of a mother's life.
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Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.
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To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.
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Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.
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Learn to obey before you command.
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No man is happy, he is at best fortunate.
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I grow old learning something new every day.
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In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend.
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Speech is the mirror of action.
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Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.
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Call no man happy before he dies, he is at best but fortunate.
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Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
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Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.
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As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
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An honest man is always a child.
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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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Be as you wish to seem.
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Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.
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Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.
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If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.
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All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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The poets are only the interpreters of the gods.
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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
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I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
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It is not living that matters, but living rightly.
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Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.
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The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
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Be slow to fall into friendship, but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
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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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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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