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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.

Socrates

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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Conception Emotional Illusion Moral Relative Sound System True Value Vulgar
Wisdom begins in wonder.
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One Liner Wisdom Wonder
Through your rags I see your vanity.
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Character One Liner Pride Vanity
The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.
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Authority Bad Children Contempt Disrespect Exercise Love Luxury Manner Place
No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils.
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Blessing Death Evil Fear Greatness Knowledge Man
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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Hate Hatred Proof Simplicity Speak Speech Truth
The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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Be Yourself Greatness Honor Myself Pretend World
A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time.
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Fight Justice Man Private Public Survive Time
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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Beware Busy Life One Liner
To find yourself, think for yourself.
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Finding Freedom Healing Self Love Yourself
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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Blessing Goodness Individual State Wealth
Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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Knowledge Wealth
It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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Change Opinion Persist
In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
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Beast Dreamss Goodness Law Men Nature Sleep Wild
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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Contentment Depart Equality Misfortune
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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Beautiful Divine Doubt God Human Indicate Man Poem Poet Work

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