Be as you wish to seem.
SOCRATESThe easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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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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To be is to do.
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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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We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
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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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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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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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A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time.
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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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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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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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When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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To express oneself badly is not only faulty as far as the language goes, but does some harm to the soul.
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