Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
SOCRATESOne 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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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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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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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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The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
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Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
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Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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The hottest love has the coldest end.
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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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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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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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Intelligent individuals learn from every thing and every one; average people, from their experiences. The stupid already have all the answers.
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.
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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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