I know you won’t believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.
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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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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If you don’t get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don’t want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can’t hold on to it forever.
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The hottest love has the coldest end.
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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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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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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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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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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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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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An unconsidered life is not one worth living.
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Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?
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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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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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