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It is wise to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well.
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It is circumstance and proper measure that give an action its character, and make it either good or bad.
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But for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that…
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Antisthenes says that in a certain faraway land the cold is so intense that words freeze as soon as they are uttered,…
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When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, 'Action, Action, Action.'
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If you declare that you are naturally designed for such a diet, then first kill for yourself what you want to eat.…
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Note that the eating of flesh is not only physically against nature, but it also makes us spiritually coarse and gross by…
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Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns; for, ion ceasing…
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Note that the eating of flesh is not only physically against nature, but it also makes us spiritually coarse and gross by…
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It is an overactive imagination that turns men into cowards, not a surfeit of fear, as many believe
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God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.
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I shall speak of how melancholy and utopia preclude one another. How they fertilize one another... of the revulsion that follows one…
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How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual…
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For as a surfeit of the sweetest things The deepest loathing to the stomach brings, Or as tie heresies that men do…
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