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I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.

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The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.

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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

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Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

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The poets are only the interpreters of the gods.

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All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.

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Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.

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No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods.

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If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

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As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.

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Biography

Nationality: Greek

Type: Philosopher

Born: Unknown

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