We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
SOCRATESThe misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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I know you won’t believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.
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When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune, nor too sorrowful in misfortune.
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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
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To be is to do.
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The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
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God would seem to indicate to us and not allow us to doubt that these beautiful poems are not human, or the work of man, but divine and the work of God; and that the poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.
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The true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone.
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A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
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Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
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No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils.
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The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
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