Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
SOCRATESThe easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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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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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
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To be is to do.
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Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
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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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When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.
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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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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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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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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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