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Death is not the worst that can happen to men. - Author object (97)

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge. - Author object (97)

There is truth in wine and children - Author object (97)

Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil. - Author object (97)

If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things. - Author object (97)

You should not honor men more than truth. - Author object (97)

Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others. - Author object (97)

Excellence" is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice. We do not act "rightly" because we are "excellent", in fact we achieve "excellence" by acting "rightly". - Author object (97)

Love is the pursuit of the whole. - Author object (97)

The soul takes nothing with her to the next world but her education and her culture. At the beginning of the journey to the next world, one's education and culture can either provide the greatest assistance, or else act as the greatest burden, to the person who has just died. - Author object (97)

Courage is knowing what not to fear. - Author object (97)

A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men. - Author object (97)

An empty vessel makes the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest babblers. - Author object (97)

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die. - Author object (97)

The beginning is the most important part of the work. - Author object (97)

To be afraid of death is only another form of thinking that one is wise when one is not; it is to think that one knows what one does not know. No one knows with regard to death wheather it is not really the greatest blessing that can happen to man; but people dread it as though they were certain it is the greatest evil." -The Last Days of Socrates - Author object (97)

Books are immortal sons defying their sires. - Author object (97)

The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful. - Author object (97)

Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable. - Author object (97)

Writing is the geometry of the soul. - Author object (97)