It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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 true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone.
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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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The hottest love has the coldest end.
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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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Be as you wish to seem.
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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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God would seem to indicate to us and not allow us to doubt that these beautiful poems are not human, or the work of man, but divine and the work of God; and that the poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.
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One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.
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Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
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Now the hour to part has come. I go to die, you go to live. Which of us goes to the better lot is known to no one, except the god.
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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 greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
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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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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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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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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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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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Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is law and no amount of pretending will alter that reality.
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There is no solution; seek it lovingly.
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Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
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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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The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.
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