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Make yourself known as a philosopher, that is a free man.

— Apollonius of Tyana

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I saw the Indian Brahmans living on the earth and not on it, walled without walls, and with no possessions except the whole world.

Ram Swarup (2000)

To speak falsely is the mark of a slave, but the truth is noble.

Plato said that virtue has no master. If a person does not honor this principle and rejoice in it, but is purchasable for money, he creates many masters for himself.

The soul that does not consider the question of the body’s self-sufficiency cannot make itself self-sufficient.

Poverty is the discoverer of all the arts.

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