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10 months 3 weeks ago

Verily we know nothing. Truth is buried deep.

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(Another translation: "Of truth we know nothing, for truth is in a well." Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers R.D. Hicks, Ed.)
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Now, that we do not really know of what sort each thing is, or is not, has often been shown.

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10 months 3 weeks ago

And yet it will be obvious that it is difficult to really know of what sort each thing is.

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10 months 3 weeks ago

Strength and beauty are the blessings of youth; temperance, however, is the flower of old age.

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Fragment quoted in H. Diels and W. Kranz (eds.) Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, Vol. II (1952), no. 294
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No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.

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Durant (1939), Ch. XVI, §II, p. 354; citing J. Owen, Evenings with the Skeptics, London, 1881, vol. 1, p. 149.
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Disease of the home and of the life comes about in the same way as that of the body.

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Freeman (1948), p. 170 Variant: Disease occurs in a household, or in a life, just as it does in a body.
10 months 3 weeks ago

The man who is fortunate in his choice of son-in-law gains a son; the man unfortunate in his choice loses his daughter also.

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Freeman (1948), p. 169
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To a wise man, the whole earth is open; for the native land of a good soul is the whole earth.

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Freeman (1948), p. 166 \
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Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.

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Freeman (1948), p. 161
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In a shared fish, there are no bones.

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Freeman (1948), p. 157

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