From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
SOCRATES
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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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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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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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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There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
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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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All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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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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If you don’t get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don’t want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can’t hold on to it forever.
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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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Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.
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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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Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is law and no amount of pretending will alter that reality.
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