When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
SOCRATESYour 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 only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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To be is to do.
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Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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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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Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state.
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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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Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
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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.
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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I don’t know why I did it, I don’t know why I enjoyed it, and I don’t know why I’ll do it again.
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The hottest love has the coldest end.
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By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.
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