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.
SOCRATESA 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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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.
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Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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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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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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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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Mankind is made of two kinds of people: wise people who know they’re fools, and fools who think they are wise.
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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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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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