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who is happy The one who is healthy in body, endowed with peace of mind and who perfects his talent.

You don't have to beautify yourself on the surface, but in the depths of your soul.

The statement that time is older than everyone is not true. For time is both past and present and future, and that time which for us is future is undoubtedly younger than the people and things of today.

Ignorance is a heavy burden.

Educate and teach only the good.

Those who sin cannot hide from the sight of God, and not even their thoughts can hide them from him.

What is greater than all? The space that encompasses them all.

What is the fastest of all? Swifter than all is reason, it surpasses all.

What is wiser than all? Time, because it alone encompasses all.

What is easy? To give advice to others.

What is more wonderful than all of them? The world (the cosmos), because it is God's creation.

What is common to all? The hope. It also exists in those who have nothing left.

What is stronger than all? Necessity, because it rules over everything.

what is hard To know yourself.

The vine of three fruits: the clusters of delight, the clusters of drunkenness, and the clusters of disgust.

A bad man is like coal: if it doesn't burn you, it makes you dirty. Better to have one precious friend than many worthless ones.

"Which ships are the safest?" Anaharsis was asked. He replied: "Those pulled ashore."

When asked how not to become a drunkard, he replied: "Imagine a drunkard in all his ugliness."

To the question of which is more, the living or the dead, he answered with a question: "But where shall I count those who swim?"

To the question of what good and bad man has at the same time, Anaharsis answered: "Language."

The first cup is for thirst, the second for joy, the third for delight, and the fourth for madness.

The market is a special place where people can cheat and steal from each other.

Amazing how at the beginning of the feast one drinks from small cups, then, with a full stomach, from large cups.

Learning that the thickness of the planks from which a ship is made is four fingers, Anaharsis said that sailors sail four fingers of death.

Do not be puffed up in happiness and do not humble yourself in misfortune.

It is in the nature of virtue, not vice, to flee from injustice.

Raise your daughters according to age while they are still virgins, and according to wisdom when they are already women.

Take your wife accordingly.

Love listening more than talking.

Master the delight.