The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
SOCRATESThe only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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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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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 only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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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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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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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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All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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There is no solution; seek it lovingly.
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I don’t know why I did it, I don’t know why I enjoyed it, and I don’t know why I’ll do it again.
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One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.
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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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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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To be is to do.
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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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My plainness of speech makes them hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.
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Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
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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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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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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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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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