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.
SOCRATESDo not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.
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The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.
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All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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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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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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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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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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Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
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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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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
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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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Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
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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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