I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
SOCRATESRemember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
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The true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone.
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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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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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Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
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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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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time.
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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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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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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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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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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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