Poems List

To wish to be well is part of becoming well.
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It is not the man who has too little who is poor, but the one who craves more.
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When we have provided against cold, hunger and thirst, all the rest is but vanity and excess.
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It is part of the cure to wish to be cured.
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He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.
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It is foolish and quite unfitting for an educated man to spend all his time on acquiring bulging muscles, a thick neck and mighty thighs. The large amounts they are compelled to eat make them dull-witted.
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He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
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Nature does not bestow virtue; to be good is an art.
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Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.
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No man was ever wise by chance.
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