...[M]en are put in a sort of guard-post, from which one must not release one's self or run away...

Socrates
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  1. Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

  2. Know thyself.

  3. Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.

  4. The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.

  5. The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.

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