Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
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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The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
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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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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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True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
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Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
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Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.
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There is no solution; seek it lovingly.
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
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I don’t know why I did it, I don’t know why I enjoyed it, and I don’t know why I’ll do it again.
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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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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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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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