We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
SOCRATESFrom the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
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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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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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Understanding a question is half an answer.
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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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The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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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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He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
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When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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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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Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.
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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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