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Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.

Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.

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

If you wish to be a writer, write.

Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things, and then proceed to greater.

We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.

If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.

There is only a finger's difference between a wise man and a fool.

It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.

Of what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings?