A man, when he gets drunk, is lead by a beardless lad, tripping, knowing not where he steps, having his soul moist.
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The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.
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To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.
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It is not good for men to get all that they wish to get. Whatever our desire wishes to get, it purchases at the cost of soul.
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We must realize that war is universal, and strife is justice, and that all things come into being and pass away through strife.
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This world, which is the same for all, no one of gods or men has made; but it was ever, is now, and ever shall be eternal fire.
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Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.
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Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.
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Fire lives the death of air, and air lives the death of fire; water lives the death of earth, earth that of water. Measures of it kindling and measures of it going out.
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It is wise to agree that all things are one. In differing it agrees with itself, a backward-turning connection, like that of a bow and a lyre. The path up and down is one the same.
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