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"If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires."
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"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."
"In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary."
"A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him."
"There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in."
"The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything."
"Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal."
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"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for."
"I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding."
"Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life."
"You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity."
"It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls."
"It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life."
"Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship."
"If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another."
"It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself."
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