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True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Socrates

Now the hour to part has come. I go to die, you go to live. Which of us goes to the better lot is known to no one, except the god.
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Die Except God Hour
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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Condition Depression Fortune Hard Time Human Joy Misfortune Permanent Remember Sorrow
From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
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Dead Deep Desire Hate Inspirational One Liner
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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Contentment Depart Equality Misfortune
One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.
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Forgiveness Insult Man Respect Return Treat Wrong
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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Ashamed Care Fame Improvement Money Prestige Soul Truth Wisdom
To be is to do.
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Gym Husstle Inspirational One Liner Possitive
Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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Beginning One Liner Wisdom Wonder
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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Except FAction Ignorance Learning One Liner
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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Knowledge One Liner True Wisdom
If you don’t get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don’t want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can’t hold on to it forever.
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Forever Greedy Human Nature Suffering
Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.
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Beautiful Man Peace Soul
The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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Evil Good Ignorance Knowledge
God would seem to indicate to us and not allow us to doubt that these beautiful poems are not human, or the work of man, but divine and the work of God; and that the poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.
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Beautiful Divine Doubt God Human Indicate Man Poem Poet Work
Through your rags I see your vanity.
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Character One Liner Pride Vanity
One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.
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Account Evil Himself Injured Injustice Journey Man Return Suffering

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