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Modesty is the color of virtue.
Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is... →
Stand a little less between me and the sun.
I have nothing to ask but that you would remove to the other side, that you may not, by intercepting the sunshine, take from me what you cannot give.
I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted.
The mob is the mother of tyrants.
It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.
I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance.
The great thieves lead away the little thief.
I am called a dog because I fawn on those who give me anything, I yelp at those who refuse, and I set my teeth in rascals.
It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.
No man is hurt but by himself.
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