The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
SOCRATESIt 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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If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.
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As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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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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My plainness of speech makes them hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.
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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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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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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state.
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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.
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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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