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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.

Socrates

The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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Be Yourself Greatness Honor Myself Pretend World
Understanding a question is half an answer.
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Deep Inspirational Knowledge Success
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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Except FAction Ignorance Learning One Liner
Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
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Break Care Leaving Loyal People Walk
Be as you wish to seem.
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Attitude Be Yourself One Liner Self Love
I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
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Decide Deliver Enable Inspirational Instinct Poet Poetry Wisdom
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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Blessing Death Evil Fear Greatness Knowledge Man
The true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone.
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Alone Champion Himself Intend Justice Leaving Life Necesaary Politics Survive True
When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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Debate Failure Loser Lost Slander
One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.
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Account Evil Himself Injured Injustice Journey Man Return Suffering
All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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Divine Immortal Men Peace Soul
We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
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Character Improvement One Liner Seek
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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Alter Change Death Freedom Law Life Mind Obligation Pain Pretend Reality Trouble
He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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Content Minimalism Nature Rich Wealth
Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.
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Beautiful Man Peace Soul
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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Enjoyment Life Live Principle

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.

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