I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
SOCRATESThe unexamined life is not worth living.
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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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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
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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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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
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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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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune, nor too sorrowful in misfortune.
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If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart.
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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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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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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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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 answer I gave myself and the oracle was that it was to my advantage to be as I am.
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Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.
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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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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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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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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.
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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
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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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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
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