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“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.”

“Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.”

“Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.”

Source: Eudemian Ethics

“Man is the measure of all things.”

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Author:Protagoras

“Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.”

“True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.”

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Author:Socrates

“Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.”

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Author:Plato

“The unexamined life is not worth living.”

“How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?”

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Book:Writings of Plato

Source: Writings of Plato

“My good friend, you are a citizen of Athens, a city which is very great and very famous for its wisdom and power - are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?”

Source: Euthyphro, Apology, and Crito, and the Death Scene from Phaedo

“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.”

Source: The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses in Four Books Preserved by Arrian, the Enchiridion, and Fragments

“At this time is freedom anything but the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.”

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Author:Epictetus

“If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.”

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Author:Epictetus

“Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.”

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Author:Epictetus

“Practice yourself, for heaven's sake, in little things, and thence proceed to greater.”

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Author:Epictetus

“Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.”

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Book:Principal Doctrines

Source: Principal Doctrines

“If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.”

Source: Principal Doctrines