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He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.

Socrates

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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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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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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All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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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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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.
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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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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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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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Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
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When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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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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Beautiful Man Peace Soul
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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If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart.
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We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
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