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Antisthenes: 'There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.'

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Antisthenes: 'Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes.'

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Antisthenes: 'As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.'

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Antiphanes: 'Poverty is the schoolmaster of character.'

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Antiphanes: 'Old age is, so to speak, the sanctuary of ills: they all take refuge in it.'

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Antiphanes: 'The quest for riches darkens the sense of right and wrong.'

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Antiphanes: 'Everything yields to diligence.'

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Anaxagoras: 'The descent to Hades is the same from every place.'

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Anaxagoras: 'Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine, were taken away.'

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Anaxagoras: 'It is not I who have lost the Athenians, but the Athenians who have lost me.'

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Anaxagoras: 'Everything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god, but a great rock, and the sun a hot rock.'

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Anaxagoras: 'The seed of everything is in everything else.'

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Anaxagoras: 'Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen.'

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Theophrastus: 'The man of petty ambition if invited to dinner will be eager to be set next his host.'

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Theophrastus: 'Ah, yes, superstition: it would appear to be cowardice in face of the supernatural.'

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Theophrastus: 'An orator without judgment is a horse without a bridle.'

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Theophrastus: 'One may define flattery as a base companionship which is most advantageous to the flatterer.'

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Theophrastus: 'Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.'

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Theocritus: 'Faults are beauties in a lover's eye.'

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Theocritus: 'Now begins a torrent of words and a trickling of sense.'

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