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A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire,--not too near, lest he burn; nor too far off, lest he freeze. - [Associates] As houses well stored with provisions are likely to be full of mice, so the bodies of those that eat much are full of diseases. - [Gluttony] I am a citizen of the world. - [World] Modesty is of the color of virtue. - [Modesty] No man is hurt but by himself. - [Injury] Sleep and Death are brothers. - [Sleep] The foundation of every state is the education of its youth. - according to Stobaeus [Education] The truly noble mind has no resentments. - also attributed to William Shakespeare [Proverbs] The vicious obey their passions, as slaves do their masters. - [Vice] There is nothing so good to make a horse fat, as the eye of his master. - [Masters] To arrive at perfection, a man should have very sincere friends, or inveterate enemies; because he would be made sensible of his good or ill conduct either by the censures of the one or the admonitions of the others. - [Censure] When asked what kind of wine he liked to drink he replied, "That which belongs to another." - [Wine and Spirits] Sacrifice to the Graces. - bk. IV, 6 [Sacrifice] The sun, too, shines into cesspools, and is not polluted. - bk. VI, sec. 63 [Sun] Once he saw a youth blushing, and addressed him, "Courage, my boy; that is the complexion of virtue." - Diogenes (VI) [Blushes] When asked what wines he liked to drink he replied, "That which belongs to another." - Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers--Diogenes (VI), (Yonge's translation) [Wine and Spirits] Of a rich man who was mean and niggardly, he said, "That man does not possess his estate, but his estate possesses him." - Lives of Eminent Philosophers (Bion, III) [Possession] You ask what hope is. He (Aristotle) says it is a waking dream. - Lives of Eminent Philosophers (bk. V, 18) [Hope] It is used to be a common saying of Myson's that men ought not to seek for things in words, but for words in things; for that things are not made on account of words but that words are put together for the sake of things. - Lives of the Philosophers (bk. I, Myson, ch. III) [Words] He calls drunkenness an expression identical with ruin. - Lives of the Philosophers--Pythagoras (VI) [Intemperance] Virtue was sufficient of herself for happiness. - Plato (XLII) [Virtue] Aristophanes turns Socrates into ridicule . . . as making the worse appear the better reason. - Socrates (V) [Reason] Thales was asked what was very difficult; he said: "To know one's self." - Thales (IX) [Knowledge]
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