Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
SOCRATESLife contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
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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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An unconsidered life is not one worth living.
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I do believe that there are gods, and in a far higher sense than that in which any of my accusers believe in them.
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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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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?
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When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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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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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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