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"Very little is needed for everything to be upset and ruined, only a slight lapse in reason."
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"But twice-two-makes-four is for all that a most insupportable thing. Twice-two-makes-four is, in my humble opinion, nothing but a piece of impudence. Twice-two-makes-four is a farcical, dressed-up fellow who stands across your path with arms akimbo and spits at you."
"I was upset. I had always believed logic was a universal weapon and now I realized how its validity depended on the way it was employed."
"But all propositions of logic say the same thing. That is, nothing."
"In order to disprove the assertion that all crows are black, one white crow is sufficient."
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"What you shun enduring yourself, attempt not to impose on others. You shun slavery- beware enslaving others! If you can endure to do that, one would think you had been once upon a time a slave yourself. For vice has nothing in common with virtue, nor Freedom with slavery."
"You know yourself what you are worth in your own eyes; and at what price you will sell yourself. For men sell themselves at various prices. This is why, when Florus was deliberating whether he should appear at Nero's shows, taking part in the performance himself, Agrippinus replied, 'Appear by all means.' And when Florus inquired, 'But why do not you appear?' he answered, 'Because I do not even consider the question.' For the man who has once stooped to consider such questions, and to reckon up the value of external things, is not far from forgetting what manner of man he is."
"You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself."
"Man, what are you talking about? Me in chains? You may fetter my leg but my will, not even Zeus himself can overpower."
"If you wish to live a life free from sorrow think of what is going to happen as if it had already happened."
"The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best."
"Philosophy does not claim to secure for us anything outside our control. Otherwise it would be taking on matters that do not concern it. For as wood is the material of the carpenter, and marble that of the sculptor, so the subject matter of the art of life is the life of the self."
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