The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.
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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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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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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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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I know you won’t believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.
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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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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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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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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.
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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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True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
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Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
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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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