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We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the...
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One of the most difficult tasks confronting philosophers is to descend from the world...
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There is no harm in doubt and scepticism, for it is through these that...
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You can build a throne with bayonets, but you can’t sit on it for...
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Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let...
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Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork...
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He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a...
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If you don’t go far enough back in memory or far enough ahead in...
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Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solved each problem as they came...
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Adversity makes men wise but not rich.