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• God helps those who help themselves. -- Algernon Sidney (1622-1683) -- Discourses on Government, Chap.
  ii, Sect. xxiii...
• Liars ought to have good memories. -- Algernon Sidney (1622-1683) -- Discourses on Government, Chap.
  ii, Sect. xv...
• It is not necessary to light a candle to the sun. -- Algernon Sidney (1622-1683) -- Discourses on Government, Chap.
  ii, Sect. xxiii...
• 3 Fish. Master, I marvel how the fishes live in the sea.
  1 Fish. Why, as men do a-land: the great ones eat up the little ones....
• Every habit and faculty is preserved and increased by correspondent actions,--as the habit of walking, by walking
  of running, by running. -- Epictetus (c. 60 AD) -- How the Semblances of Things are to be combated, -- Discourses, Book ii, Chap....
• There are some things which men confess with ease, and others with difficulty.
  -- Epictetus (c. 60 AD) -- Of Inconsistency, -- Discourses, Book ii, Chap. xxi...
• Be not hurried away by excitement, but say, "Semblance, wait for me a little.
  Let me see what you are and what you represent. Let me try you....
• Whatever you would make habitual, practise it; and if you would not make a thing habitual, do not practise it, but habituate yourself to something else.
  -- Epictetus (c. 60 AD) -- How the Semblances of Things are to be combated, -- Discourses, Book ii, Chap....
• If what the philosophers say be true,--that all men's actions proceed from one source
  hat as they assent from a persuasion that a thing is so, and dissent from a persuasion that it is not, and suspend their judgment from a persuasion that it is uncertain,--so likewise they seek a thing from a persuasion that it is for their advantage....