If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.
SOCRATESThe misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
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When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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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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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
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To express oneself badly is not only faulty as far as the language goes, but does some harm to the soul.
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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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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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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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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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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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