Quotes with alexandria

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• Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

  ― Philo of Alexandria
  Greek Jewish philosopher (20 - 50)
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• Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

  ― Philo of Alexandria
  Greek Jewish philosopher (20 - 50)
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• Households, cities, countries, and nations have enjoyed great happiness when a single individual has taken heed of the Good and Beautiful. Such people not only liberate themselves; they fill those they meet with a free mind.

  ― Philo of Alexandria
  Greek Jewish philosopher (20 - 50)
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• People sometimes tell me that they prefer barbarism to civilization. I doubt if they have given it a long enough trial. Like the people of Alexandria, they are bored by civilization; but all the evidence suggests that the boredom of barbarism is infinitely greater.

  ― Clark Kenneth
   
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• Those who give hoping to be rewarded with honor are not giving, they are bargaining.

  ― Philo of Alexandria
  Greek Jewish philosopher (20 - 50)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• civilization
• individual
• themselves
• alexandria
• infinitely
• bargaining

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