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- What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
- I have gained this by philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
- Education is the best provision for old age.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
- Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.
- Epicurus (341 BC - 270 BC), from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
- Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
- Epicurus (341 BC - 270 BC), from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
- The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.
- Zeno (335 BC - 264 BC), from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
- An orator is a good man who is skilled in speaking.
- Cato the Elder (234 BC - 149 BC), from Seneca the Elder, Controversiae
- He plants trees to benefit another generation.
- Caecilius Statius (220 BC - 168 BC), Synephebi
- Men willingly believe what they wish.
- Julius Caesar (100 BC - 44 BC), De Bello Gallico
- Veni, vidi, vici.
[I came, I saw, I conquered] - Julius Caesar (100 BC - 44 BC), from Suetonius, Lives of the Caesars
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