If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart.
SOCRATESA 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.
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As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
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It is not difficult to avoid death, gentlemen of the jury; it is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.
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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.
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The answer I gave myself and the oracle was that it was to my advantage to be as I am.
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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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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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There is no solution; seek it lovingly.
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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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Understanding a question is half an answer.
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Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?
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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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