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Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.
One man cannot practice many arts with success.
I shall assume that your silence gives consent.
He who does not desire power is fit to hold it.
Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.
Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.
Necessity is literally the mother of invention.
As wolves love lambs so lovers love their loves.
Ignorance is the root cause of all difficulties.
All learning is in the learner, not the teacher.
Let no one destitute of geometry enter my doors.
Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.
Pepper is small in quantity and great in virtue.
There is no other start to philosophy but wonder.
Those having torches will pass them on to others.
The worst form of injustice is pretended justice.
It is impossible to conceive of many without one.
I fast for greater physical and mental efficiency
Wise men speak because they have something to say
Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance.
I'm trying to think, don't confuse me with facts.
The gods' service is tolerable, man's intolerable.
I will prove by my life that my critics are liars.
No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.
Time is the moving imago of the unmoving eternity.
The first and the best victory is to conquer self.
When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.
Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
All wars are fought for the sake of getting money.
Knowledge is the rediscovering of our own insight.
The life which is not examined is not worth living.
They certainly give very strange names to diseases.
Great parts produce great vices as well as virtues.
The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
The highest form of pure thought is in mathematics.
No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.
A wise ignorance is an essential part of knowledge.
To think truly is noble and to be deceived is base.
All I really know is the extent of my own ignorance
When the music changes, the walls of the city shake.
Nothing in human affairs is worth any great anxiety.
Not to help justice in her need would be an impiety.
Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.
An hour of play is worth a lifetime of conversation.
When there is crime in society, there is no justice.
Haughtiness lives under the same roof with solitude.
Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.
Kindness which is bestowed on the good is never lost.
The beginning is the most important part of the work.
An old man is twice a child, and so is a drunken man.