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.
SOCRATESBy far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.
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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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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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All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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Understanding a question is half an answer.
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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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To express oneself badly is not only faulty as far as the language goes, but does some harm to the soul.
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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.
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The true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone.
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A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time.
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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.
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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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As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
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