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I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know.
I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.
I would rather be first in a little Iberian village than second in Rome.
If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.
If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.
It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.
It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.
It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.
Justice... is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.
Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss.
Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.
The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.
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