Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?
SOCRATESBeware the barrenness of a busy life.
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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
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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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God would seem to indicate to us and not allow us to doubt that these beautiful poems are not human, or the work of man, but divine and the work of God; and that the poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.
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Be as you wish to seem.
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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
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Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.
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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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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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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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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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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
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An unconsidered life is not one worth living.
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Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
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Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
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