The true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone.
SOCRATESStrong 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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We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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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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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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To be is to do.
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To express oneself badly is not only faulty as far as the language goes, but does some harm to the soul.
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If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart.
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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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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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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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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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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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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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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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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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Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
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Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?
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Be as you wish to seem.
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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
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In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
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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.
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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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