The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
SOCRATESLife contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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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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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.
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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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The hottest love has the coldest end.
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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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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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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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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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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
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He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
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