From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
SOCRATESTo express oneself badly is not only faulty as far as the language goes, but does some harm to the soul.
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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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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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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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Understanding a question is half an answer.
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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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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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By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state.
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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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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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In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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