A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time.
SOCRATESWisdom begins in wonder.
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All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
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Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.
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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
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Be as you wish to seem.
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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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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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The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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