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.
SOCRATESIn all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
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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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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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Be as you wish to seem.
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Mankind is made of two kinds of people: wise people who know they’re fools, and fools who think they are wise.
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To be is to do.
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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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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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An unconsidered life is not one worth living.
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Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state.
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I don’t know why I did it, I don’t know why I enjoyed it, and I don’t know why I’ll do it again.
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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?
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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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