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why, he replied, Because in a little while everything will be turned
upside down." | |
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Found in the topic Unsorted.
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| "Most men are within a finger"s breadth of being mad." | |
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Found in the topic Madness.
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| "Blushing is the color of virtue." | |
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Found in the topic Blushing.
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| "To arrive at perfection, a man should have very sincere friends or
inveterate enemies; because he would be made sensible of his good or ill
conduct, either by the censures of the one or the admonitions of the
other." | |
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Found in the topic Perfection.
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| "I am a citizen of the world." | |
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Found in the topic World.
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| "I threw my cup away when I saw a child drinking from his hands at
the trough." | |
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Found in the topic Hand.
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| "The mob is the mother of tyrants." | |
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Found in the topic Masses.
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| "The sun too penetrates into privies, but is not polluted by
them." | |
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Found in the topic Classic.
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| "Nothing can be produced out of nothing." | |
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Found in the topic Creation.
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| "He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge; and one
only evil, namely, ignorance." | |
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Found in the topic Evil.
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| "Solon used to say that speech was the image of actions; ... that
laws were like cobwebs, ? for that if any trifling or powerless thing fell
into them, they held it fast; while if it were something weightier, it
broke through them and was off." | |
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Found in the topic Law.
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| "It takes a wise man to discover a wise man." | |
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Found in the topic Virtue.
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| "When asked what was the proper time for supper: If you are a rich
man, whenever you please; and if you are a poor man, whenever you
can." | |
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Found in the topic Easy.
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| "When Thales was asked what was difficult, he said, "To know one"s
self." And what was easy, "To advise another."" | |
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Found in the topic Advice.
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| "As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent
enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to
task." | |
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Found in the topic Endure.
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