A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
SOCRATESThou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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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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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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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
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To be is to do.
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