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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.

Socrates

The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
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Be Yourself Greatness Honour Live Pretend
Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.
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Beautiful Man Peace Soul
All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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Divine Immortal Men Peace Soul
Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
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Achievement Desire Dreamss Heart Life Tragedy
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
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Afraid Children Darkness Depression Forgiveness Life Men Traged
Through your rags I see your vanity.
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Character One Liner Pride Vanity
No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils.
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Blessing Death Evil Fear Greatness Knowledge Man
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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Decide Deliver Enable Inspirational Instinct Poet Poetry Wisdom
Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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Goodness Inspirational Life One Liner Value
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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Goodness Inspirational Saddle Struggle Tame
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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Authority Bad Children Contempt Disrespect Exercise Love Luxury Manner Place
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
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Battle Fight Kindness Meet Philosophy Struggle
The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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Be Yourself Greatness Honor Myself Pretend World
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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Enjoyment Life Live Principle
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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Fools Kindness People Philosophy Wise
I don’t know why I did it, I don’t know why I enjoyed it, and I don’t know why I’ll do it again.
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Comfortable Enjoyment Life Peace

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.

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