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The art of being a slave is to rule one's master.
A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.
I do not know whether there are gods, but there ought to be.
Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.
It was a favorite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend.
I threw my cup away when I saw a child drinking from his hands at the trough.
Calumny is only the noise of madmen.
The sun too penetrates into privies, but is not polluted by them.
Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.
Blushing is the color of virtue.