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The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.

Socrates

From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
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Dead Deep Desire Hate Inspirational One Liner
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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Authority Bad Children Contempt Disrespect Exercise Love Luxury Manner Place
Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.
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Death Excellence Goodness Individual Men Wealth
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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Improvement Labor Men Writing Yourself
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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Beware Busy Life One Liner
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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Conception Emotional Illusion Moral Relative Sound System True Value Vulgar
The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
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Capacity Development-q Enjoyment Finding Happiness Secret Seek
In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
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Beast Dreamss Goodness Law Men Nature Sleep Wild
Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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Blessing Death Greatness Human One Liner
We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
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Character Improvement One Liner Seek
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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Die Except God Hour
There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
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Evil Greatness Hate Reason Suffering
Understanding a question is half an answer.
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Deep Inspirational Knowledge Success
Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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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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Decide Deliver Enable Inspirational Instinct Poet Poetry Wisdom
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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Forever Greedy Human Nature Suffering

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