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• The validity of an idea or action is determined not by whether it is widely believed or widely reviled but by whether it obeys the rules of logic.
• It is not because an argument is denounced by a majority that it is wrong nor, for those drawn to heroic defiance, that it is right.
• Just as medicine confers no benefit if it does not drive away physical illness, so philosophy is useless if it does not drive away the suffering of the mind.
• Before you eat or drink anything, consider carefully who you eat or drink with rather than what you eat or drink: for feeding without a friend is the life of a lion or a wolf.
• chooses not the greatest quantity of food but the most pleasant.’