He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
SOCRATESI know you won’t believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.
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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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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
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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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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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There is no solution; seek it lovingly.
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If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.
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As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
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