The hottest love has the coldest end.
SOCRATESLife contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
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Intelligent individuals learn from every thing and every one; average people, from their experiences. The stupid already have all the answers.
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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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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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No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.
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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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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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An unconsidered life is not one worth living.
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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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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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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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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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