True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
SOCRATESThrough your rags I see your vanity.
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One 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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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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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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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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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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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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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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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.
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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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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
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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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Be as you wish to seem.
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The answer I gave myself and the oracle was that it was to my advantage to be as I am.
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