Consider your origin: you were not made to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

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  The love that moves the sun and the other stars.

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  Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.

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  Imagined dangers are the deepest, and imagined enemies are the most bloodthirsty.

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  There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.

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  If your mind stops at your opponent’s sword, you lose your freedom to act.

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  Respect Buddha and the gods without counting on their help.

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