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.
SOCRATESBe kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
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Understanding a question is half an answer.
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There is no solution; seek it lovingly.
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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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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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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune, nor too sorrowful in misfortune.
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One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.
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The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
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I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
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To be is to do.
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The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
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All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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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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There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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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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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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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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Now the hour to part has come. I go to die, you go to live. Which of us goes to the better lot is known to no one, except the god.
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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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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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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
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