Mankind is made of two kinds of people: wise people who know they’re fools, and fools who think they are wise.
SOCRATESWe 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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When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
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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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The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
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As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
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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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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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It 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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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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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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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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Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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If you don’t get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don’t want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can’t hold on to it forever.
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