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.
SOCRATESThe highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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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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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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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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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
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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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The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.
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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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