One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.


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Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
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Very little is needed for everything to be upset and ruined, only a slight lapse in reason.
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If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of t...
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If you wish to be a writer, write.
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There is nothing good or evil save in the will.
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Do not laugh much or often or unrestrainedly.
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Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things, and then proceed to greater.
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A city is not adorned by external things, but by the virtue of those who dwell in it.
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Men are not afraid of things, but of how they view them.
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You become what you give your attention to.
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Show me a man who though sick is happy, who though in danger is happy, who though in prison is happy...
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