Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods.
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My belief is that to have no wants is divine.Socrates
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No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that of government.
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The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways I go to die, and you to live. Which is the better, God only knows.
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Let him that would move the world first move himself.
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In every one of us there are two ruling and directing principles, whose guidance we follow wherever they may lead the one being an innate desire of pleasure the other, an acquired judgment which aspires after excellence.
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