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I would prefer to speak openly and like an oracle to give answers serviceable to all mankind, even though no one should understand me, rather than to conform to popular opinions and so win the praise freely scattered by the mob.

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Of all the means which wisdom acquires to ensure happiness throughout the whole of life, by far the most important is friendship. (28)

Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.

Necessity is an evil; but there is no necessity for continuing to live subject to necessity.

Philosophy instructs us to pay homage to the gods, not through hope or fear, but from veneration of Their superior nature.

He who is not satisfied with a little, is satisfied with nothing.

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