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"Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and useless. These, now as of old, are not gifts of the gods: men stumble into them themselves because of their own blindness and folly."
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"No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so."
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"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them."
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"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."
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"Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away."
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"Genius: the superhuman in man."
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"Men exist for the sake of one another."
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"One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best."
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"I will praise any man that will praise me."
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"When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land."
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"A man should be upright, not be kept upright."
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"Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains."
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"Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity."
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"It is better to destroy one's own errors than those of others."
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"Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry."
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"Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong."
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"The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged."
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"By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich."
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"Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence."
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"Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and useless. These, now as of old, are not gifts of the gods: men stumble into them themselves because of their own blindness and folly."
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"If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it."
Justice
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