It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
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The soul's impurity consists in bad judgments, and purification consists in producing in it right judgments, and the pure soul is one which has right judgments.
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We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say that only the educated are free.
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God has delivered yourself to your care, and says I had no fitter to trust than you
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