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.
SOCRATESWisdom begins in wonder.
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Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
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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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Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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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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Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?
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It is a disgrace to grow old through sheer carelessness before seeing what manner of man you may become by developing your bodily strength and beauty to their highest limit.
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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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The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles.
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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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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 as you wish to seem.
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The hottest love has the coldest end.
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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.
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