I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
SOCRATESThe misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
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Understanding a question is half an answer.
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Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.
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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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The hottest love has the coldest end.
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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.
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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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To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.
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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
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