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Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.
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Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
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By all means marry if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
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Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.
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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.
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Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods.
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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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