The knowledge of past times and of the places on the earth is both an ornament and nutriment to the human mind.
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Avoid studies of which the result dies with the worker.
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Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age; and if you understand that old age has wisdom for its food, you will so conduct yourself in youth that your old age will not lack for nourishment.
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As a day well spent procures a happy sleep, so a life well employed procures a happy death.
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Just as food eaten without caring for it is turned into loathsome nourishment, so study without a taste for it spoils memory, by retaining nothing which it has taken in.
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Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than with the imagination being awake?
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