The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
SOCRATESWhen you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
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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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Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
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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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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.
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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles.
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The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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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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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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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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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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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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There is no solution; seek it lovingly.
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To be is to do.
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