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Intelligent individuals learn from every thing and every one; average people, from their experiences. The stupid already have all the answers.

Socrates

God would seem to indicate to us and not allow us to doubt that these beautiful poems are not human, or the work of man, but divine and the work of God; and that the poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.
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Beautiful Divine Doubt God Human Indicate Man Poem Poet Work
Be as you wish to seem.
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Attitude Be Yourself One Liner Self Love
It is a disgrace to grow old through sheer carelessness before seeing what manner of man you may become by developing your bodily strength and beauty to their highest limit.
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Beauty Body Careless Develop Disgrace Fitness Inspirational Limit Manner Strength
Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
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Break Care Leaving Loyal People Walk
Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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Beautiful Inspirational Live One Liner
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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Conception Emotional Illusion Moral Relative Sound System True Value Vulgar
In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
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Beast Dreamss Goodness Law Men Nature Sleep Wild
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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Alter Change Death Freedom Law Life Mind Obligation Pain Pretend Reality Trouble
I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
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Decide Deliver Enable Inspirational Instinct Poet Poetry Wisdom
One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.
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Forgiveness Insult Man Respect Return Treat Wrong
All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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Divine Immortal Men Peace Soul
He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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Content Minimalism Nature Rich Wealth
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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Knowledge One Liner True Wisdom
Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.
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Death Excellence Goodness Individual Men Wealth
The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
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Be Yourself Greatness Honour Live Pretend
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.
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Forever Greedy Human Nature Suffering

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