Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
SOCRATESIt 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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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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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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I do believe that there are gods, and in a far higher sense than that in which any of my accusers believe in them.
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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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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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The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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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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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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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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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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By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.
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