He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
SOCRATESThere is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
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Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
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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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No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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It is not difficult to avoid death, gentlemen of the jury; it is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.
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The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
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True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
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There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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To be is to do.
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The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.
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Now the hour to part has come. I go to die, you go to live. Which of us goes to the better lot is known to no one, except the god.
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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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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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