Only the educated are free.
We should not have either a blunt knife or a freedom of speech which is ill-managed.
When one maintains his proper attitude in life, he does not long after externals.
Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be; or they neither are, nor appear to be; or they are, and do not appear to be; or they are not, and yet appear to be. Rightly to aim in all these cases is the wise man's task.
If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.
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