“Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.”
“Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.”
“For out of such an ungoverned populace one is usually chosen as a leader, someone bold and unscrupulous who curries favor with the people by giving them other men's property. To such a man the protection of public office is given, and continually renewed. He emerges as a tyrant over the very people who raised him to power.”
“The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.”
“In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods, than in giving health to men.”
“Hours and days and months and years go by; the past returns no more, and what is to be we cannot know; but whatever the time gives us in which we live, we should therefore be content.”
“Justice is the set and constant purpose which gives every man his due.”
“Let arms give place to the robe, and the laurel of the warriors yield to the tongue of the orator.”
“The soul in sleep gives proof of its divine nature.”
“Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself; you will never err if you listen to your own suggestions.”
“As the scale of the balance must give way to the weight that presses it down, so the mind must of necessity yield to demonstration.”
“Let the force of arms give place to law and justice.”
“Tomorrow will give us something to think about”
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