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Nothing is in reality either pleasant or unpleasant by nature; but all things become such through habit.
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Choose the best life; for habit will make it pleasant.
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Choose rather to leave your children well instructed than rich. For the hopes of the wise are better than the riches of the ignorant.
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A daughter is to a father a possession which is not his own.
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The same person advised to bequeath modesty to children, rather than gold.
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The reproof of a father is an agreeable medicine; for the profit is greater than the pain.
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He who is fortunate in a son-in-law finds a son; he who is unfortunate in one loses likewise a daughter.
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The worth of instruction, like that of gold, passes current in every place.
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He who cultivates wisdom cultivates the knowledge of God.
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There is no creature so beautiful as a man adorned by instruction.
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We ought to flee the friendship of the wicked, and the enmity of the good.
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Misfortunes test friends, and detect enemies.
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We ought to do well by our friends when they are present, and speak well of them when they are absent.
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Let him not think himself loved by any, who loves none.
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We ought to choose, both for a physician and for a friend, not the most agreeable, but the most useful.
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If you would lead a life without sorrow, regard things which will happen, as if they had already happened.
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Be exempt from grief; not like irrational creatures, from insensibility, nor from inconsiderateness, like fools; but like a man of virtue, making reason the remedy for grief.
