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Each man's soul is his genius.
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
Go away, you give philosophy nothing to catch hold of.
Geometry is one of the handles of science and philosophy.
If the ox could think, it would attribute oxality to God.
Tragedy when ridiculed by comedy does not condescend a reply.
I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.
Counsel in trouble gives small comfort when help is past remedy.
Happiness is the possession of the excellence proper to us, and of the power subservient to it.
An ambassador should study the welfare of his country, and not spend his time in feasting and riot.
One may as well go, as look into another man's house; because the eye may reach what the hand cannot.
Antipater uses us favourably if he looks upon us as staves, but very hardly if he considers us as freemen.