Education is a restraint for the young, a consolation for the old, wealth for the poor and an ornament for the rich.

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  Of wild beasts the worst bite is the slanderer’s; of tame ones, the flatterer’s.

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  The sun too visits filthy places without being defiled.

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  How can death be evil, when in its presence we are not aware of it?

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  I am a citizen of the world.

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  Asked why people give alms to beggars but not to philosophers, he answered that they fear they may become beggars themselves, but never philosophers.

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  What have you gained from philosophy? — This at least, if nothing else: to be prepared for every fortune.

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