Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
SOCRATESTo 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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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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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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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
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If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.
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Be as you wish to seem.
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There is no solution; seek it lovingly.
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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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The answer I gave myself and the oracle was that it was to my advantage to be as I am.
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Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
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Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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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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