The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
SOCRATESBe of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
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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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Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
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The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.
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One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.
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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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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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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
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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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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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