"Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest."

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"If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another."

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"I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding."

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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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"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."

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"It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help."

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"A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs."

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"It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls."

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"Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist."

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