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The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.

Socrates

Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
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Adversity Depression Human Prosperity Remember Stable
When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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Knowledge One Liner True Wisdom
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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Admire Beautiful City Community Greatness Planning Wisdom
Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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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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The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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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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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles.
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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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To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.
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No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils.
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