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• God helps those who help themselves. -- Algernon Sidney (1622-1683) -- Discourses on Government, Chap.
  ii, Sect. xxiii...
• It is not necessary to light a candle to the sun. -- Algernon Sidney (1622-1683) -- Discourses on Government, Chap.
  ii, Sect. xxiii...
• Men lived like fishes; the great ones devoured the small.
  -- Algernon Sidney (1622-1683) -- Discourses on Government, Chap. ii, Sect. xviii...
• Two rules we should always have ready,--that there is nothing good or evil save in the will
  and that we are not to lead events, but to follow them....
• In every affair consider what precedes and what follows, and then undertake it.
  -- Epictetus (c. 60 AD) -- That Everything is to be undertaken with Circumspection, -- Discourses, Book iii, Chap....
• Manus haec inimica tyrannis Ense petit placidam sub libertate quietem.
  -- Algernon Sidney (1622-1683) -- From the Life and Memoirs of Algernon Sidney...
• Since it is Reason which shapes and regulates all other things, it ought not itself to be left in disorder.
  -- Epictetus (c. 60 AD) -- Discourses, Chap. xvii...
• The appearance of things to the mind is the standard of every action to man.
  -- Epictetus (c. 60 AD) -- That we ought not to be angry with Mankind, -- Discourses, Book i, Chap....
• Shall I show you the muscular training of a philosopher?
  What muscles are those?"--A will undisappointed; evils avoided...