When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
SOCRATESIt 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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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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My plainness of speech makes them hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.
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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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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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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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We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
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By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.
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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
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One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.
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Understanding a question is half an answer.
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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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Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state.
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