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.
SOCRATESThe unexamined life is not worth living.
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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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Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?
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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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The hottest love has the coldest end.
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The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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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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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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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
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No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.
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Be as you wish to seem.
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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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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
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He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
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