The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.
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Employ your time improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily to what others have labored hard for.
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If all the misfortunes of mankind were cast into a public stack in order to be equally distributed among the whole species, those who now think themselves the most unhappy would prefer the share they are already possessed of before that which would fall to them by such a division.
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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