Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
SOCRATESWhen the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
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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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Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
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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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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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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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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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The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
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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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Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
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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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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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