The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
SOCRATESEverything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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Your 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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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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The answer I gave myself and the oracle was that it was to my advantage to be as I am.
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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
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Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
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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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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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Be 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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