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"Wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking, for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else."
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"It is this spirit of godliness that will bring forth the attributes, the principles and the life style of godliness."
"Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way."
"Abstinence is as easy for me as temperance would be difficult."
"The greater the wisdom, the greater the mind. The greater the courage, the greater the heart. The greater the love, the greater the soul."
"It is better to be a discipline than a follower."
"When virtue has slept it will arise more vigorous."
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"I have gained this by philosophy. I do without being ordered what some are constrained to do by their fear of the law."
"Now to exert oneself and work for the sake of amusement seems silly and utterly childish. But to amuse oneself in order that one may exert oneself, as Anacharsis puts it, seems right; for amusement is a sort of relaxation, and we need relaxation because we cannot work continuously. Relaxation, then, is not an end; for it is taken for the sake of activity."
"Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last."
"With respect to the requirement of art, the probable impossible is always preferable to the improbable possible."
"The ideal man, takes joy in doing favours for others; but he feels ashamed to have others do favours for him. For it is a mark of superiority to confer a kindness; but it is a mark of inferiority to receive it."
"Anyone can get angry, but to do this to the right person, to the right extent, at the right time, with the right motive, and in the right way, that is not for everyone, nor is it easy."
"A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility. The story should never be made up of improbable incidents, there should be nothing of the sort in it."
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