True perfection is a bold quest to seek. Only the willing and true of heart will seek the betterment of many.
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True perfection is a bold quest to seek. Only the willing and true of heart will seek the betterment of many.
Wealth does not bring about excellence (aka areté), but excellence (aka areté) brings about wealth and all other public and private blessings for men.
By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.
The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.
No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods.
Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
The cure of many diseases remains unknown to the physicians of Hellos (Greece) because they do not study the whole person.
If what you want to tell me is neither True nor Good nor even Useful, why tell it to me at all
The noblest worship is to make yourself as good and as just as you can.
We shall be better, braver, and _x000D_ more active if we believe it right to _x000D_ look for what we don't know.
YOU ARE NOT ONLY GOOD TO YOURSELF, BUT THE CAUSE OF GOODNESS IN OTHERS
Nothing is so well learned as that which is discovered.
The universe really is motion & nothing else.
Man's life is like a drop of dew on a leaf.
Beauty comes first. Victory is secondary. What matters is joy.
The reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.
Let us follow the truth whither so ever it leads.
To know thyself is the beginning of wisdom.
Do not grieve over someone who changes all of the sudden. It might be that he has given up acting and returned to his true self.
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