Nobody knows what death is, nor whether to man it is perchance the greatest of blessings, yet people … - Socrates

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A religion made up solely of heightened religious experiences would not be a religion at all. . . . The major religious traditions address the mysteries (with or without entheogens), but they have other business to do: widen understanding, give meaning, provide solace, promote loving-kindness, and connect human being to human being.

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Nobody knows what death is, nor whether to man it is perchance the greatest of blessings, yet people fear it as if they surely knew it to be the worse of evils.

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People learn more on their own rather than being force fed.

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Whom do I call educated? First, those who manage well the circumstances they encounter day by day. Next, those who are decent and honorable in their intercourse with all men, bearing easily and good naturedly what is offensive in others and being as agreeable and reasonable to their associates as is humanly possible to be. . . those who hold their pleasures always under control and are not ultimately overcome by their misfortunes. . . those who are not spoiled by their successes, who do not desert their true selves but hold their ground steadfastly as wise and sober - minded men.

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Improve yourself by other men's writings thus attaining effortlessly what they acquired through great difficulty.

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The friend must be like money, that before you need it, the value is known.

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