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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.

Socrates

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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Beware Busy Life One Liner
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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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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Agriculture Ignorant Man Problem Wheat
Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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Education Flame Kindness Learning Vessel
When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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Debate Failure Loser Lost Slander
The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.
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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time.
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Fight Justice Man Private Public Survive Time
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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Die Except God Hour
As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
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Mankind is made of two kinds of people: wise people who know they’re fools, and fools who think they are wise.
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It is not difficult to avoid death, gentlemen of the jury; it is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.
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Avoid Death Difficult Ignorance Run Wicked
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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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune, nor too sorrowful in misfortune.
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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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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.

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