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Big business always serve - directly or indirectly - the masses.
Reason is the main resource of man in his struggle for survival.
A philosophical problem has the form: I don't know my way about.
The goal of good health is to enable a person to acquire wisdom.
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
This wine is forty years old. It certainly doesn't show its age.
There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness.
Nature herself has imprinted on the minds of all the idea of God
Sound conviction should influence us rather than public opinion.
Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun.
To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die.
Peace is so beneficial that the word itself is pleasant to hear.
The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.
Every man's reputation proceeds from those of his own household.
The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.
A successful book cannot afford to be more than ten percent new.
Only a fraction of the history of literacy has been typographic.
Current illusion is that science has abolished all natural laws.
To be old can be glorious if one has not unlearned how to begin.
We can be redeemed only to the extent to which we see ourselves.
We should live totally in the face of the night and of the Evil.
The essence of technology is by no means anything technological.
The song still remains which names the land over which it sings.
What a man takes in by contemplation, that he pours out in love.
He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment.
The outward work will never be puny if the inward work is great.
One who believes all of a book would be better off without books
Knowledge is not made for understanding; it is made for cutting.
Loneliness can be conquered only by those who can bear solitude.
Cruelty towards others is always also cruelty towards ourselves.
Take charge of your thoughts. You can do what you will with them
He who can properly define and divide is to be considered a god.
There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.
Love is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
A good education consists in knowing how to sing and dance well.
No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
Democracy is the great love of the failures and cowards of life.
Travelling is almost like talking with those of other centuries.
No state more extensive than the minimal state can be justified.
I regard myself as a man without charm in a country of charmers.
A little learning is a dangerous thing but none at all is fatal.
To eat steak rare . . . represents both a nature and a morality.
The victory of socialism will not descend like fate from heaven.
The sensory acts are accordingly distinguished by their objects.
Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it.
The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
The great thing is to know when to speak and when to keep quiet.
Levity of behavior is the bane of all that is good and virtuous.
Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.