In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
SOCRATESI 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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The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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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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Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
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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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Mankind is made of two kinds of people: wise people who know they’re fools, and fools who think they are wise.
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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.
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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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