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.
SOCRATESDeath may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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The hottest love has the coldest end.
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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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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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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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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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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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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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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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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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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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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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