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Socrates called beauty a short-lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege of nature; Theophrastus, a silent...
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Of the delights of this world, man cares most for sexual intercourse, yet he...
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Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.
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If you are rich, you speak the truth if you are poor, your words...
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The need of exercise is a modern superstition, invented by people who ate too...
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Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only...
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Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey ‘people.’ People say...
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The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.
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The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy...
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Anyone who can handle a needle convincingly can make us see a thread which...