From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
SOCRATESThe only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
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The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
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Now the hour to part has come. I go to die, you go to live. Which of us goes to the better lot is known to no one, except the god.
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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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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?
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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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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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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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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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I know you won’t believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.
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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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