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- When the highest type of men hear Tao,
They diligently practice it. When the average type of men hear Tao, They half believe in it. When the lowest type of men hear Tao, They laugh heartily at it. Without the laugh, there is no Tao. - Lao-tzu (604 BC - 531 BC), The Way of Lao-tzu
- A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.
- Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC), The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse
- He with whom neither slander that gradually soaks into the mind, nor statements that startle like a wound in the flesh, are successful may be called intelligent indeed.
- Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects
- By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.
- Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects
- Light be the earth upon you, lightly rest.
- Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC), Alcestis, 438 B.C.
- Let each man exercise the art he knows.
- Aristophanes (450 BC - 388 BC), Wasps, 422 B.C.
- The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways - I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.
- Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC), in Plato, Dialogues, Apology
- The partisan, when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the rights of the question, but is anxious only to convince his hearers of his own assertions.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), Dialogues, Phaedo
- The beginning is the most important part of the work.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), The Republic
- The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), The Republic
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