To express oneself badly is not only faulty as far as the language goes, but does some harm to the soul.
SOCRATESThe easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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There is no solution; seek it lovingly.
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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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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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An unconsidered life is not one worth living.
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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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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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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
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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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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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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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I know you won’t believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.
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The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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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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The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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