"The saying, "Practice is everything," is Periander's."

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"Of a rich man who was niggardly he said, "That man does not own his estate, but his estate owns him.""

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"Democritus says, "But we know nothing really; for truth lies deep down.""

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"As some say, Solon was the author of the apophthegm, "Nothing in excess.""

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"Chilo advised, "not to speak evil of the dead.""

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"Aristippus being asked what were the most necessary things for well-born boys to learn, said, "Those things which they will put in practice when they become men.""

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"One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any external influence. Moreover, that in that does happiness consist."

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"They also say that God is an animal immortal, rational, perfect, and intellectual in his happiness, unsusceptible of any kind of evil, having a foreknowledge of the universe and of all that is in the universe; however, that he has not the figure of a man; and that he is the creator of the universe, and as it were the Father of all things in common, and that a portion of him pervades everything."

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"Once he saw a youth blushing, and addressed him, "Courage, my boy! that is the complexion of virtue.""

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"It was a favourite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend."

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"When a man reproached him for going into unclean places, he said, "The sun too penetrates into privies, but is not polluted by them.""

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"Xenophanes was the first person who asserted . . . that the soul is a spirit."

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"It was a saying of his that education was an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity."

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"Socrates said, "Those who want fewest things are nearest to the gods.""

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"Plato affirmed that the soul was immortal and clothed in many bodies successively."

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"Arcesilaus had a peculiar habit while conversing of using the expression, "My opinion is," and "So and so will not agree to this.""

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"The chief good he has defined to be the exercise of virtue in a perfect life."

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"It takes a wise man to discover a wise man."

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"He calls drunkenness an expression identical with ruin."

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"Aristotle was once asked what those who tell lies gain by it. Said he, "That when they speak truth they are not believed.""

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"Once when Bion was at sea in the company of some wicked men, he fell into the hands of pirates; and when the rest said, "We are undone if we are known,"--"But I," said he, "am undone if we are not known.""

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"There are many marvellous stories told of Pherecydes. For it is said that he was walking along the seashore at Samos, and that seeing a ship sailing by with a fair wind, he said that it would soon sink; and presently it sank before his eyes. At another time he was drinking some water which had been drawn up out of a well, and he foretold that within three days there would be an earthquake; and there was one."

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"Diogenes would frequently praise those who were about to marry, and yet did not marry."

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"All things are in common among friends."

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"He used to teach that God is incorporeal, as Plato also asserted, and that his providence extends over all the heavenly bodies."

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"Being asked whether it was better to marry or not, he replied, "Whichever you do, you will repent it.""

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"He declared that he knew nothing, except the fact of his ignorance."

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"That the gods superintend all the affairs of men, and that there are such beings as dæmons."

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"Often when he was looking on at auctions he would say, "How many things there are which I do not need!""

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"Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent."

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"As for the brandy, "nothing extenuate;" and the water, put nought in in malice."

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"That fellow would vulgarize the day of judgment."

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"A blessed companion is a book,--a book that fitly chosen is a life-long friend."

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"Talk to him of Jacob's ladder, and he would ask the number of the steps."

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"Some people are so fond of ill-luck that they run half-way to meet it."

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"He is one of those wise philanthropists who in a time of famine would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks."

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"There is something about a wedding-gown prettier than in any other gown in the world."

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"The life of the husbandman,--a life fed by the bounty of earth and sweetened by the airs of heaven."

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"The surest way to hit a woman's heart is to take aim kneeling."

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"The nobleman of the garden."

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"The best thing I know between France and England is the sea."

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"Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest."

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"The ugliest of trades have their moments of pleasure. Now, if I were a grave-digger, or even a hangman, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment."

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"He was so good he would pour rose-water on a toad."

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"We understood Her by her sight; her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought That one might almost say her body thought."

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"She and comparisons are odious."

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"He was the Word, that spake it: He took the bread and brake it; And what that Word did make it, I do believe and take it."

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"Who are a little wise the best fools be."

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"Soft carpet-knights, all scenting musk and amber."

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"And reads, though running, all these needful motions."

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