There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
SOCRATESThere is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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The hottest love has the coldest end.
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Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
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One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.
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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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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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When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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I do believe that there are gods, and in a far higher sense than that in which any of my accusers believe in them.
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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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Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is law and no amount of pretending will alter that reality.
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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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Intelligent individuals learn from every thing and every one; average people, from their experiences. The stupid already have all the answers.
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The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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To be is to do.
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The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
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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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