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Placing your stick at the end of the shadow of the pyramid, you made by the sun's rays two triangles, and so proved that the pyramid [height] was to the stick [height] as the shadow of the pyramid to the shadow of the stick.

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Hope is the only good that is common to all men; those who have nothing else possess hope still.

A Dictionary of Thoughts (1908)

Avoid doing what you would blame others for doing.

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Do not beautify your appearance, but be beautiful in your way of life.

A multitude of words is no proof of a prudent mind.

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