Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
SOCRATESNo 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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My plainness of speech makes them hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.
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The hottest love has the coldest end.
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
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To be is to do.
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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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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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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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He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
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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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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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