It is a disgrace to grow old through sheer carelessness before seeing what manner of man you may become by developing your bodily strength and beauty to their highest limit.
SOCRATESThe greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
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Mankind is made of two kinds of people: wise people who know they’re fools, and fools who think they are wise.
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The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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Understanding a question is half an answer.
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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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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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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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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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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I do believe that there are gods, and in a far higher sense than that in which any of my accusers believe in them.
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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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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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