Through your rags I see your vanity.
SOCRATESDo not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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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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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
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No 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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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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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
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The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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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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We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
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